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October 2017 contents

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FEATURES 20 | Meet Your Airpark Neighbor Spirit of the Senses brings intellectual salons to Valley homes.

22 | Aesthetic Air Local salons offer cutting-edge treatments in stylish surrounds.

26 | Pumped Up Fitness buffs pay premiums for custom workouts at boutique Airpark gyms.

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30 | Healthy Choices Delightful Airpark eats – with the emphasis on "light"

SPOTLIGHT 18 | 5 O'Clock in the Airpark The Fat Ox makes fine dining affordable during Apertivo Hour.

34 | Fitness in the Airpark Recess Endurance Training's spin classes bring the heat.

36 | Business Spotlight Cloud Creations brings dress-up dreams to life with custom costumes.

37 | Making a Difference Jordan Coleman leads an unconventional band at Impact Church.

38 | Fly-In Vacation Tucson: A new look at the Old Pueblo reveals superlative food and recreation.

41 | Arts in the Airpark Urban Electra turns classic rock songs into classical jams.

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43 | Remember When Scottsdale had epic floods.

47 | Dining Destinations FRC's No Kid Hungry dinner, Cafe Allegro and Veneto Trattoria

COLUMNS 55 | What’s Cooking Greek manestra 57 | Scottsdale Leadership Nonprofit program creates pipeline of leaders for community impact.

58 | Legal Perspectives Five high-priority estate planning situations 60 | Insurance & Benefits Health care 3.0 is arriving.

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62 | Tourism Talk Experience Scottsdale touts new flights to Europe.

CYCLE Hot spin classes will make you sweat

64 | Commercial Real Estate and You Renewal options On the cover: 4 | Editor’s Note 6 | Business News 65 | Business Directory

69 | Advertiser Index 70 | Business Horoscopes 71 | Scottsdale Airpark Map

Tiffany Milliman, hot spin instructor at Recess Endurance Training. Photo by Kimberly Carrillo.

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When It Rains...

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he water on Greenway Road just off the I-17 was up to my father’s knees by the time he pulled me from the backseat of our submerging station wagon and placed me on his shoulders. I was not quite 31/2 years old, and small for my age, so I held onto his shoulders as hard as I could, afraid the wind was going to blow me away, and sideways, too, the same direction it was pushing the rain that whipped our cheeks. As my father struggled to wade through the rushing, muddy flood, I looked around and saw water pouring down the freeway ramps, people pulling other people out of their cars and stumbling toward the meager shelter of the underpass, palm trees beat into a blur of flailing fronds against a dark gray sky, a street light flickering ominously. It was January of 1980, during one of several deluges that hit Central Arizona in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It remains the most apocalyptic thing I’ve ever seen in Phoenix, and watching newscasts about the incredibly devastating floods in Florida and Texas brought that night back to vivid life for me. Hurricanes Harvey and Irma stirred some memories for Scottsdale historian Joan Fudala, as well, as she recounts in this month’s “Remember When” (Photo by Cassandra Tomei) column on the history of Scottsdale floods Niki D'Andrea (page 43).

Executive Editor Speaking of history, Italian restaurant Veneto’s Trattoria marks a milestone with its 20-year anniversary this month.

Writer Wynter Holden visited to preview the special anniversary menu; you can find her assessment on page 52 in our ever-expanding dining section.

This month in dining, I also caught up with rock star restaurateur and philanthropist Sam Fox (page 47), and Christina Fuoco-Karasinski visited Café Allegro at the Musical Instrument Museum, which has become a great lunchtime spot for locals (page 50).

Since this is officially the annual “Health & Wellness” issue, our food coverage also includes five of the healthiest places to eat around the Airpark (page 30). When ready to burn off those calories, exercise options include “hot spin” cycling (page 34) and programs at a crop of new fitness facilities (page 26).

Now that we’re starting to get fall weather, the arts season is picking up, as well, with outdoor movies and concert series popping up all around Scottsdale, including the "Sips and Sounds" series, which kicks off this month with Urban Electra (page 41). At a time when torrential downpours are ravaging other parts of the country, we’re lucky to be flooded with sun and culture. Might as well get out there and enjoy it, as healthfully as possible.

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Students Kelly Knodel and Kiara Grindrod will be honored at the Starry Knights gala.

Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship throws Starry Knights fundraiser on October 21 Scottsdale-based nonprofit organization Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship’s annual gala fundraiser, Starry Knights, will take place Saturday, October 21, at Scottsdale Plaza Resort. The theme for the event is “An Evening of Hollywood Glamour,” and fundraiser festivities include cocktail hour, dinner and live and silent auctions. There also will be a keynote presentation honoring Camelot students Kiara Grindrod and Kelly Knodel.

The fully accessible Camelot Ranch has served children and adults with disabilities since its founding in 1983. All students in the Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship program receive complimentary lessons,

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which are supported by fundraising events like Starry Knights.

“Starry Knights is an incredibly important night of fundraising for us, and it also gives us the perfect venue to celebrate all of the people who make Camelot so special,” says Mary Hadsall, executive director for Camelot. “At this year ’s event, we are excited to honor two young women, Kiara Grindrod and Kelly Knodel, who exemplify the generous, joyful and determined attitudes that make Camelot so special.”

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City of Scottsdale’s data portal now open to the public As part of its selection to participate in the national What Works Cities program, the City of Scottsdale launched a data portal in May 2016. The city has used the datasets to track progress, glean insight and make decisions about services.

Now, the public can access Scottsdale’s new open data portal to see many of the same datasets the city uses. There are currently more than 30 datasets on the site, including information on code violations and building permits, police and fire calls and map-based data on things like trolley routes and hiking

trails. “This portal is not just about making Scottsdale government more transparent,” Mayor Jim Lane says. “We hope it will make us more effective, too, through the insights and applications that may result.”

Examples of dataset-driven results include the determination that moving Scottsdale Fire Department’s Station 603 two miles to the east will shorten emergency response times; the creation of trail maps in McDowell Sonoran Preserve to enhance citizen recreation and assist with search and rescue operations; and using traffic counts on roadways to help de-

termine where new traffic signals should go.

“Datasets are maintained and refreshed regularly, so the public can count on current data being available in their area of interest,” says Kelly Corsette, communications and public affairs director for the city. “People can request datasets they would like to see via the site, as well.”

The portal, which was developed with guidance from the Sunlight Foundation Open Data Policy Guidelines using open-source software at no out-of-pocket cost to the city, can be accessed at data.scottsdaleaz.gov.

Joe Capriotti named executive vice president and general manager of Americana Holdings Americana Holdings, which operates Berkshire Hathaway Home Services Arizona Properties, has named Joe Capriotti executive vice president and general manager. Capriotti’s responsibilities in this role include supporting the management team and overseeing the company’s 2,500 real estate executives throughout Arizona, Nevada and California.

“Last year was a record-breaking year with $3.7 billion in sales volume and we look forward to continued growth,” says Mark Stark, CEO of Americana Holdings.

“Joe’s passion for helping people grow their business is one of the many reasons he is one of the most successful real estate sales leaders on the West Coast.”

Before joining Americana Holdings, Capriotti launched a national virtual

operating platform as national president of a large brokerage. His resume also includes positions as national senior vice president of Prospect Mortgage, president and CEO of GMAC Real Estate, and executive vice president and general manager of Prudential California Realty.

“Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices offers our real estate executives global marketing capabilities unmatched by any other real estate company in the world,” says American Holdings president and COO Gordon Miles. “We are thrilled to welcome Joe as a respected and innovative leader who can help our agents… build their businesses with both trusted coaching strategies and innovative technological advances in our industry.”

Experience Scottsdale’s 2017 annual meeting features speaker Doug Lansky International travel author and speaker Doug Lansky will give a presentation at Experience Scottsdale’s 2017 annual meeting.

Lansky, who has written books for Lonely Planet and Rough Guides and articles for National Geographic Adventure and Esquire magazines, will talk about the practices employed by forward-thinking destinations that draw travelers to them.

Experience Scottsdale president and CEO Rachel Sacco also will speak at the event, sharing the organization’s plans for 2018. The meeting takes place Monday, October 23, and begins at noon in the Vaquero Ballroom at Scottsdale Resort & Spa at Gainey Ranch; a networking luncheon on the terrace court precedes the event at 11 a.m. Individual tickets cost $50; five-ticket packages are available for $225.

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Doug Lanksy will speak at Experience Scottsdale’s meeting on October 23.

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‘Shred It’ events scheduled for October 7 and November 4

Got docs? Do they contain sensitive or personally identifiable information? Protect yourself from identity theft by shredding excess documents at the City of Scottsdale’s monthly “Shred It” events. Copper Buttons and the Police Officers of Scottsdale Association put on the events, wherein trucks are filled with bags of papers, to be shredded onsite. The cost is $4 per filled bankers box or paper grocery bag, and a portion of the proceeds benefits charities. The next two Shred It events take place from 7 to 10 a.m. October 7 and November 4, in the parking lot of the Walmart Supercenter, 15355 N. Northsight Boulevard. For more information, email officer Craig Abernethy at craigcraig704@ gmail.com or visit scottsdaleaz.gov and search for “shredding event.” …continues on page 12

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Fashion Week 4 Kids kicks off at Desert Ridge Marketplace on October 30

Law firm Quarles & Brady relocates Airpark office

Fashion Week 4 Kids, an annual weeklong event geared toward children’s clothing and style, begins October 30 at Desert Ridge Marketplace and culminates November 4 with a full day of fashion shows. This is the third year for the fashion fete, which features special discounts from tons of participating brands, including Babies R Us, Gap Kids, Macy’s, Old Navy and Athleta. It all leads up to the capstone party featuring DJs, dancers, magicians, and martial arts performances, plus participatory activities like coffee bag sack races, face painting, (Photo courtesy Steve Levine Entertainment and arts and crafts stations. One & Public Relations) of the most popular activities at Fashion Week 4 Kids will culminate last year’s event was the Arizona with children modeling the latest styles. mascots meet-and-greet, when kids and adults alike snapped shots with the mascots for the Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Rattlers and Coyotes. And, of course, there will be fashion shows featuring local kids in the latest threads throughout the day.

Casting calls and entertainment schedules will be announced in the comings weeks. For more information on the event, visit FW4Kids.com.

National law firm Quarles & Brady LLP announced in September it will relocate its Scottsdale office to 8585 E. Hartford Drive, Suite 108, on October 2. Attorney Matt Dana, who joined Quarles & Brady in 2014 and is a partner in the Valley-based Estate, Trust and Wealth Preservation Practice Group, will transition back to his own firm; senior associate Todd Smith has been named the new practice group chair in Scottsdale. He’ll be joined in the new office by paralegal Jennifer Skubic. Smith’s focus is on estate planning, probate and trust administration, and business organizations.

“The Scottsdale office will continue to serve local trusts and estate clients in partnership with our Phoenix, Tucson and additional offices across the country, which includes more than two dozen highly qualified estate planning attorneys who work with clients at every stage of life and career – new professionals, beneficiaries, individual and professional trustees, startup and established business owners, executives and retirees,” says Nicole Stanton, Phoenix office managing partner. “This national presence is particularly important as business and family life have become increasingly mobile. Many of our clients have homes, businesses, and financial commitments in several states.” …continues on page 14

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Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage hosts third annual Adopt-A-Pet event On September 9, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage held its third annual Adopt-A-Pet event at its Airpark-area offices on Scottsdale Road. The event was part of Coldwell Banker’s National Homes for Dogs Project and is organized by Sandi Hess, manager of the Scottsdale and Carefree office of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.

“Our office toured the Foothills (Photo courtesy CIM Incorporated) Animal Rescue Facility this past June, and we are committed to our Kathy Reardon, Greg Hallman and Sandi Hess of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage at the company’s 2016 community and pets in need,” Hess Adopt-A-Pet event. says. “Not only do we love finding the community.” homes for people, we love finding To date, the office has raised more than homes for pets in need, too. We always received great feedback and support from $3,500 for Foothills Animal Rescue.

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Scallop dreams and cocktail The Fat Ox makes fine dining affordable during Apertivo Hour.

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ating at The Fat Ox feels a bit like sitting in a scene from the old television show Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous.

Pristine white serviettes on meticulously set tables almost seem to glow in the twilight spilling through the panoramic windows, while staff performs a well-choreographed service routine through the dining room.

If you get up for a trip to the restroom, you will likely to come back to find your napkin neatly folded and placed on your chair.

The concept is “a new approach on Italian food,” meant to be “simple yet bold.” The

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menu includes decadent dishes worthy of a Robin Leach voiceover – Scottish salmon with faro risotto and apricot agro dolce, Duroc pork tomahawk chop with baby fennel in a balsamic glaze, and a 40-ounce prime porterhouse that will set you back $110. It’s not a cheap place to eat (there’s nothing on the dinner menu that costs less than $10, and that’s the price point for a few small salads), which is one reason it’s a good idea to hit up the restaurant’s “Apertivo Hour” every day from 5 to 7 p.m.

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Keep the fire in your mouth fueled with marcona almonds spiced with smoked paprika and Calabrian chiles ($5), or tone it down with prosciutto sweetened with truffle honey ($8). Other happy hour highlights

Ambiance in the restaurant varies according to time and place.

The Fat Ox’s cocktail menu spotlights classics, like gin and tonic.

Much attention is given to plate presentation.

include calamari fritti with squid ink, fermented pepper romesco and Sicilian almonds ($12); veal meatballs ($10); and wood-grilled prime hanger steak ($16). There’s also a pasta bar proffering five kinds of handmade pasta ($9 per taste, or $22 for three tastings) including tubular garganelli with speck (pork

fat) and truffle butter, and cone-shaped gigli pasta (also known as campanelle) with San Marzano tomatoes and basil.

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During happy hour, Manabrea pilsner and amber beers cost $5 each.

If you’re down for dinner but still looking to nosh on small bites, the menu offers a handful of worthy choices. The house salad (“Insalada de casa”) satisfies with organic local greens, Brussels sprouts and pomegranate seeds, and among the sides, roasted trumpet mushrooms and Calabrian-roasted cauliflower steal the show.

There are a few notable entrees, including the aforementioned porterhouse, steamed mussels and Jidori chicken, but the Hokkaido diver scallops are unforgettable. Superbly seared with sublimely salty edges and made with osso vin clams, crispy Brussels sprouts, sunchoke (Jerusalem artichoke), pancetta and trumpet mushrooms, these scallops are pretty perfect.

Dessert options include a Meyer lemon tart, tiramisu, gelato and a delicate amaro olive oil cake with hints of rosemary and orange.

Ambiance varies according to time and place. If you’re in the bar area for happy hour, it’s going to be loud and crowded, with music pulsing below the din that sounds danceable but is otherwise completely indiscernible.

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Curiosity Club A group brings the spirit of 19th-century intellectual salons to homes throughout the Valley.

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he sunset flames across Camelback Mountain just outside a gorgeous home where about 50 people are sitting to hear a talk about life, the universe and everything. But we’re not sitting still, explains the speaker, theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss. We’re whirling at 20 miles per second around that sun, and at 130 miles per second around the galaxy.

Spirit of the Senses founders Patty Barnes and Thomas Houlon

He describes how the GPS we used to drive here is accurate thanks to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, which also tells us objects traveling at the speed of light are measured as smaller by observers. At the break, one man jokes that if he grabs a brownie from the dessert table and runs really fast, it’ll be smaller and have fewer calories.

This is a typically enlightening evening at Spirit of the Senses. The organization has around 300 members and hosts approximately 110 salons a year in homes throughout the Valley, plus cultural tours to New York. October ’s salons feature topics such as “The U.S. Supreme Court and Current Constitutional Issues” and “Genome Editing: Building a Better You.”

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At a recent salon, ASU neuroscientist Miles Orehinik discussed the hormone oxytocin.

Recent speakers include Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton, a Jane Austen scholar, an adventure traveler and several artists, scientists and political experts. At this year’s New York City and Princeton trip, members met with (among others) two Nobel Prize winners: Thinking, Fast and Slow author Daniel Kahneman and neuroscientist Eric Kandel.

The diversity grows out of the insatiable curiosity of directors Thomas Houlon and Patty Barnes. “Growing up in Phoenix, I knew a lot of interesting people who didn’t know each other, and a lot of interesting places most people didn’t know,” says Houlon, who launched Spirit of the Senses in 1983. “I wanted to create a social situation where people could have meaningful conversations, and it would be fun… A lot of people are curious about things, but they don’t have access to people or [the opportunity to] sit down with somebody and ask questions.”

A few years after starting the salons, Houlon met and married Barnes and the organization took off. Their constantly evolving interests attract speakers and members from a range of perspectives. And the social interactions at the salons create an intellectual alchemy.

“There’s a hunger for this now because of the emphasis on the digital and social media,” Barnes says. “People are saying, ‘Maybe I don’t want to stay home and be at my computer all night. I need a real person to talk to…’ And now they’re saying in articles on neuroscience that you need these kind of groups, that they’re very positive. So, socially, we’re a prescription for our time.”

“There’s such breadth in the things they present; it’s such a variety of intellectual and sensory experiences,” Krauss says. “Thomas and Patty are wonderful, the people of Spirit of the Senses are wonderful. It makes Phoenix a better place to be.”

Membership costs $360 a year to attend five salons each month (that’s $6 per event). For more information, visit spiritofthesenses.com. 

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Stylish spaces, like this one at La Lou Salon, put guests at ease.

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e’ve all heard the saying “You never get a second chance to make a first impression.” And many businesspeople know firsthand how accurate the adage is. Luckily, if you live or work in the Airpark area, a plethora of salons are ready and equipped to help you get your game face on.

Taglio Salon

Taglio Salon (tagliosalon.com), a longtime Scottsdale 101 tenant, recently expanded its capacity and service menu. Late last year, the salon, which formerly resided

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Local salons offer cutting-edge treatments in stylish surrounds.

in the northeast area of the mall, relocated to a new suite a few doors down from Harkins Scottsdale 101.

“It was time for a new look. The previous salon was almost 14 years old,” owner Tom Rough says, explaining the motivation behind the move and his desire to remain in the mall. “I have always liked the location right off Scottsdale Road and the 101. The highway access makes it convenient for our clients.”

The new 2,000-square-foot salon features airy, vaulted ceilings and bright, contemporary decor. The refresh was such a hit that

the increasingly busy salon needed room to accommodate more stylists. So earlier this year, Rough rented the suite next door, tore down its walls and doubled the salon’s size.

“Our passion is to create fashionable hair and celebrate individuality,” Rough says.

“And we’re now home to even more of the best hair cutters and colorists in Arizona.”

In addition to more stylists, Rough used his newly enlarged footprint to add a Skin Room, which offers relaxing and effective Rhonda Allison facials. It’s also where you’ll find the state’s only Sculptor Artisan, a non-invasive microcurrent technology that

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The former Vidal Sassoon Chicago stylist and manager constantly dreams up big new plans for his salon, adding, “We hope to see a school in the future for new prospects who want to learn hairdressing and advanced training.”

Exclusively Men’s Barber and Spa

Another Airpark mainstay with more than a decade in the area, Exclusively Men’s Barber and Spa (exclusivelymensspa.com) opened in 2006, the brainchild of owner and fourthgeneration master barber Sam Mirzakan.

“Growing up, I saw how my dad took pride in his profession, and it felt like it was the right choice for me as well,” he says.

His eldest son, Arthur, helped Mirzakan open the barber shop and spa. Now his son, also a master barber, takes the family tradition into its fifth generation as a barber in New York City.

And after 30 years in the business, Mirzakan still gets inspiration from his work. “My passion for providing barber services to this day comes from the interactions I get from each client,” Mirzakan affirms. “I enjoy seeing their happy smiles when they step off the chair looking clean and fresh and ready to take on the world.”

His steadfast commitment to the Airpark community has transformed clients into friends.

“I enjoy listening to their life stories as they

become comfortable and begin to open up and share,” he explains.

The unique men’s destination has a menu of services designed to encompass a wholebody approach to men’s grooming. “We do not stop at precision, spa-quality haircuts for men and kids of all ages,” Mirzakan says. “We have a long list of services that most other barber shops do not offer.”

That list includes straight razor shaves, royal shaves (which include a facial mask and massage), scalp shaves, mustache and beard trimming, facial masks, aromatherapy skin treatments, scalp massage, hair color services, full body waxing services and spa manicures and pedicures.

“We believe all men deserve a place that they can feel comfortable receiving their grooming care needs with no embarrassment or judgment,” Mirzakan says. “We are here to provide an all-inclusive barber spa experience for each client at every visit.”

The shop uses The Art of Shaving, a shave and hair care line formulated for men. “We are proud to offer our clients high-quality natural products with all grooming services,” Mirzakan says.

His large waiting room boasts complimentary cookies, snacks, coffee and water. Dark cherry wood accents set a masculine ambiance with comfortable, genuine leather barber chairs. Each station has its own television so clients can tune into a program that interests them.

“My goal,” Mirzakan says, “is to make sure each client that enters Exclusively Men’s Barber and Spa finds it to be a relaxing and enjoyable escape from the daily hustle.”

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…continued from page 23 Dre’s Hair Salon & Spa (dreshairsalon.com) hope their business feels like a family affair.

“With being a large salon, we didn’t want our clients to feel like they were just another appointment on our books,” Aronica explains. “We want everyone to feel like they are a part of the Dre’s family, and I believe we have achieved that by seamlessly combining a luxury experience with the warmth and hospitality of a small, family-run business.”

The full-service salon’s menu is filled with hair, skin and nail services aligned with the latest trends. “We are definitely seeing a lot of color-melting technique in hair at the moment,” Aronica says.

Not to be mistaken for the ombre – where one color is applied midway, gradually building downward toward the hair’s tips – color melting uses three or more colors in the same or similar color family and intertwines them from roots to ends without being able to tell where one color starts and another one ends. “Colors can be melted from light to dark or dark to light and the result is a gorgeous dimensional color that is effortlessly chic and classic,” Aronica adds.

In nails, he says, the SNS Powder System is an exciting new product. This

new process provides the benefits of traditional gel or acrylic nails without the potential negative side effects of using an ultraviolet light to set your manicure.

“Plus the use of powder can create some amazing ombre, and other unique designs, that more traditional techniques cannot,” Aronica says.

The salon recently added a new brow grooming technique called nano needling.

It uses ultra-fine needles to mechanically deposit pigment into the skin. Unlike microblading, where strokes are performed manually by the technician, nano needles eliminate the variation in strokes, pressure and the amount of pigment applied, which reduces, or even eliminates, the need for additional touch-ups with results that last longer.

“We are excited to have a new aesthetician on the Dre’s team who will be offering an elevated service that results in an even more natural brow, with the ability to shade and fine tune to perfection,” Aronica says.

And in step with its clients, Dre’s Hair Salon and Spa is getting a refreshed look.

“As beautiful as our salon is already, we are constantly evolving and updating our space,” Aronica explains. “Not only did we just finish a huge project with our newly minted pedicure area, but we also

added additional hair stations to our spacious 6,000 square feet and are coming to completion on our overall upgrade. Think jaw-dropping illuminated 3-D panels and sleek wood flooring on the walls. It’s going to be gorgeous.”

La Lou Salon

Stylish spaces can enhance the experience for clients and staff alike. For La Lou Salon (lalousalon.com) stylist Veronica Robin, it gives her a sense of pride to work in a gorgeous space. “La Lou is a beautiful salon environment,” she says. “It has a beautiful design and the products we carry are top of the line – the best for our clients.” www . s r eworked s a z . c oher m A stylist since 2014, Robin way up the salon ranks. She joined La Lou Salon in 2012 as a front desk receptionist, was promoted to salon assistant after she earned her license and graduated to a full-time stylist just eight months later.

Her spirit and drive embody the passion found in many of the Airpark area’s “first impression” experts.

“I’ve always been in love with the industry of hair and makeup and always have felt a passion for it since I was a little girl, so it was inevitable,” Robin says. “What keeps me in the industry is definitely how I can make my clients feel so beautiful. It truly is the best reward.” 

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ick LeMoine navigates through the aisles of free weights, dumbbells, squat racks and weightlifting platforms in what he calls the “Power Room” area of Maximum Fitness, a 16,000-squarefoot gym hidden in an industrial park overlooking the Loop 101 just north of Bell Road.

“This is where we have a lot of the older equipment,” says LeMoine, general manager of the facility– who, with his silver hair and compact, wiry frame, could be considered older equipment himself among all the jacked strongmen, buff female bodybuilders and well-toned personal trainers who make up a majority of the gym’s dedicated clientele.

“For me, I like this stuff better than the newer stuff over there,” he says, motioning toward the requisite treadmills, elliptical machines, spin bikes and Stair Masters that fill the cardio training area. “Some of this stuff, they don’t even make any more. Like this Smith machine,” he adds, pointing out a rare vertical weightlifting contraption, invented by late fitness legend Jack LaLanne.

“This was broken and the guy we had maintaining our equipment said it couldn’t be fixed. Well, I don’t accept ‘can’t.’ So I went online and bought all new bearings and, with a little ingenuity, learned how to fix it myself.”

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Maximum Fitness general manager Rick LeMoine says “people want to choose what works for them” in terms of gyms and fitness classes.

While he’s describing the mechanics of the Smith machine, a fit young woman loads heavy weights onto the barbell and asks if LeMoine would like to get on it first. “C’mon Rick, you wanna jump in?” she says. LeMoine laughs, taps another young female weightlifter on the chin as she swings a cast iron kettle bell and gamely steps out of the way as a Pumping Iron-era Schwarzenegger doppelgänger pulls a heavily weighted prowler sled across the floor.

LeMoine seems to know almost all of the gym members by name, which he counts as another feature, besides the rare old-school equipment, that sets the 15-year-old gym apart from the large number of fitness centers that have sprung up lately around the Scottsdale Airpark.

“We try to treat this like the old sitcom Cheers, where when you walk in the door, everybody knows your name,” he says, moving outside to a narrow outdoor area covered in AstroTurf which members use for tractor tire flipping and prowler sled pulling. ”It’s great to walk into a place and know you’re not just a number, which is how the bigger corporate gyms often treat you.

Plus, all of our trainers here are independent – they pay me to work here. Which is a lot different than other clubs, where their main focus is to sell you a membership.

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chises has become a winning strategy for gym operators. Maximum Fitness brands itself as one of the last old-school style gyms in North Scottsdale, mixing in vintage gym-rat equipment along with almost retrocheap $39 per month membership fees, but the Airpark area has become dominated by another type of alt-gym: the high-end ”boutique” fitness studio. …continues on page 28 October 2017 Scottsdale Airpark News | 27

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According to trade group the International Health, Racquet, and Sportsclub Association (IHRSA), attendance at smaller, more specialized studios grew by 70 percent between 2012 and 2015 and now represent around 35 percent of the $83 billion worldwide fitness market. While category leaders like LA Fitness, Planet Fitness and Anytime Fitness still make up the biggest slices of the pie, boutique studios offering specialty workout classes in things like spinning, CrossFit, SoulCycle or hot yoga are gaining ground, particularly with younger exercisers who are willing to pay more for personalized workout experiences focusing on particular body-toning results. IHRSA reports Americans spend between $80 and $140 a month for such specialty fitness classes, as opposed to an average of $52 for club memberships at the big box chains.

“In this day and age, I think people are willing to pay a little bit more for a targeted group fitness class just so they don’t have to think about what to do at the gym,” says Scott Van Horne, owner of the Scottsdale location of TruHIT Fitness, near the south end of the runway at Scottsdale Airport, which charges $99 for monthly memberships. “If you go to a gym at a crowded time, what do you normally do? Maybe get on a treadmill for a half-hour, lift a few weights. You can easily spend a couple hours there and not really get a good workout. With this kind of program, you come in here for an hour class, do a warm-up, watch the trainers demo the exercises, you work out really hard for 35 to 40 minutes, cool down and you’ve done an incredible workout in 50 minutes.”

TruHIT specializes in a form of cardio workout called high-intensity interval training, or HIIT, ranked as one of the top five fitness trends for 2017 by the American College of Sports Medicine. Van Horne, a former software engineer for a cybersecurity firm, started out as a member of TruHIT, founded by his friend Ken Fearer, and was so impressed with the personal results he achieved from the workout that he purchased the studio in 2015. (Fearer has since opened five other locations throughout the Valley.)

Van Horne says another big part of the appeal of the specialty fitness club is the sense of community participants get from engaging with other like-minded exercise buffs.

“It’s kind of like they’re all in this together, you know? They meet people, they’re high-fiving each other. And it’s not just women who are taking exercise classes now. We have plenty of men who come in, too. Even guys who’ve said they would never do a group fitness class are having their eyes opened. They come in, get their butts kicked by the trainers and go, ’Okay, I get it now!’”

Apart from HIIT, Airpark fitness boutiques offer a wide array of discipline-specific classes.

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EOS Fitness, on Northsight Boulevard and Raintree Drive, offers weekly group classes centered around indoor cycling, yoga, Zumba, kickboxing, Pilates and barbells.

(Photo courtesy EOS Fitness)

EOS Fitness, on Northsight Boulevard and Raintree Drive, offers weekly group classes centered around SoulCycle-type indoor cycling, yoga, Zumba, kickboxing, Pilates and barbell lifts and curls.

The Scottsdale location of the Portlandbased barre3 Studio, on Greenway-Hayden Loop near the Scottsdale Quarter, specializes in the barre workout, a ballet-inspired routine that has been enjoying a rapid surge in popularity over the past few years (the American Council on Exercise links the trend to the release of the 2010 movie Black Swan).

And Off the Grid Fitness, on Scottsdale Road south of Shea Boulevard, bills itself as Arizona’s first “green gym,” featuring spin bikes and elliptical machines that generate

their own electricity, as well as classes in HIIT, mat Pilates and TRX (Total Resistance eXercise), a form of suspension-training exercise developed by a former Navy Seal using a jiu-jitsu belt and parachute webbing to leverage gravity and the user’s body weight as an alternative to standard pushups.

LeMoine, who’s been in the fitness biz for some time, says Maximum Fitness tries to provide as much variety as possible, too, in its workout options.

“This is our boxing room,” he says, stepping into the large area just to the side of the front desk, which he says has become one of the gym’s main attractions. “For a lot of members, it’s a new thing for them to come

into a gym that has a variety of things to do beyond just lifting weights or doing cardio machines. People are kind of intrigued by even just the sound of the punching bags, and we have gloves they can use if they don’t have their own.

“We’ve also got the tires,” he adds, motioning to a pair of tractor tires stacked by a wall. ”Some people like to flip those for exercise, and we’ve got some sledgehammers they can use, if they just want to come in and beat the hell out of the tires with those. We have battle ropes in every corner of the gym. We try to accommodate all kinds of ways people want to exercise. That’s important today,” he says. “People want to choose what works for them.” 

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Healthy

Choices Delightful Airpark eats – with the emphasis on “light”

Inside-out quinoa at True Food Kitchen (Photo courtesy Havas PR)

By Wynter Holden

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ating right isn’t always easy. According to the Pew Research Center, the average person consumed around 2,481 calories per day in 2010. That’s nearly 25 percent more daily calories than we ate in 1970 – and way more than we need to fuel our bodies. We’re increasingly on the go, working longer hours and shuttling the kids off to activities, leaving little time for cooking. Dining out fills the gap, but unfortunately, it also busts our belts. Luckily, jetsetters living or working near Scottsdale Airpark have dozens of healthy alternatives to burgers and fries. Here are a few of our favorite local stops for food that’s fresh, healthful and environmentally friendly.

True Food Kitchen 15191 N. Scottsdale Road, #100 480-265-4500, truefoodkitchen.com One of the earliest entries onto Scottsdale’s healthy food scene, True Food Kitchen grew from a seed planted by author and home chef Dr. Andrew Weil. Local restaurateur Sam Fox met Weil in the 1990s, at the beginning of the doctor’s push for what he calls the “anti-inflammatory diet,” a reworked food pyramid that puts fruits and vegetables at the bottom and uses meat sparingly. Several of Weil’s recipes have been featured at True Food, including a spaghetti squash casserole and the T.L.T. sandwich made with tempeh.

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It’s not all twigs and leaves here, either.

Pan-roasted chicken and sustainable sea bass are among the meatier options; diners can also add grass-fed steak or other meats to Asian-inspired noodle bowls. The tangy sauce of the panang curry has just enough spice to satisfy, while teriyaki quinoa pairs best with chicken breast or tofu. One of the best dishes for first-timers is the housemade mushroom pizza, which satisfies with beefy shrooms, crisp asparagus and a smattering of pungent taleggio cheese. Finish up with chia pudding, a creamy tapioca-like concoction with banana and toasted coconut.

Foosia 13610 N. Scottsdale Road 480-389-1520, foosiafresh.com It’s no secret that Chipotle has a winning concept. It’s fast, it’s fresh and diners can see every ingredient that goes in their meal before they choose it. Unfortunately, a standard Chipotle burrito can provide an entire day’s worth of calories if you’re not careful about what you order. Foosia uses the same counter-line setup, allowing guests to build their own bowl with a base of greens, rice or Asian-style thin noodles topped with choice of protein, veggies and sauces.

It’s like the choose-your-own-adventure book of fast food. Granted, with the wrong selections, your healthful meal can turn into a diet-busting thriller. The menu is numbered by category (base, protein, veggie etc.), so

Build your own bowl of Asian delights at Foosia.

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Seafood lovers will appreciate the shrimpand avocado-studded Gulf of Mexico salad, while the chimichurri-sauced steak of the Patagonia bowl uses the potent olive oil and herb blend in place of dressing for a flavor boost without added calories. Grabbagreen also does custom detox juices for those wanting a good old-fashioned cleanse, but with more flavor than the typical cayenne-lemon variety. If you’re going that route, opt for the delectable Wellness blend with apple, carrot, lemon and strawberry juices. For dessert, the Rio acai bowl with banana, blackberry and strawberry is as tasty as ice cream with only 300 calories and a fraction of the fat.

hotpot or opt for a flavorful, plant-based cucumber roll with a side of spicy lemongrass soup. Our go-to order is curry apple tofu, which pairs the warm spices of golden curry with tart green apples, raisins and a mélange of crisp veggies. It’s a great marriage of opposites, chock-full of ingredients that clash yet somehow work in harmony together.

Natural Grocers 13802 N. Scottsdale Road, # 110 480-483-2200, naturalgrocers.com If you’ve spotted the giant cow painted on the side of a store in downtown Flagstaff, you’ve seen Natural Grocers. The nationwide supermarket, owned by Vitamin Cottage, opened its 100th store in Scottsdale

Gulf of Mexico salad and juice at Grabbagreen (Photo special to Airpark News)

in August 2017. Though it hasn’t been around in the Valley long enough to compare with major competitors Trader Joe’s and Whole Foods, we’re already impressed with their meat standards. In addition to being hormone- and antibioticfree, animals must have pasture or outdoor access, and meat producers are encouraged to use non-GMO feeds. Natural Grocers also carries Certified Organic meats, and all of the fresh produce you’ll find here is organically grown without chemical pesticides.

They also carry plenty of trending items like sea salt caramel organic ice cream and pre-made jackfruit tacos, the latter capitalizing on the latest meat-substitute

Fresh Mint 13802 N. Scottsdale Road 480-443-2556, freshmint.us.com The only meat-free place on our healthy hot list, Fresh Mint does vegetarian cuisine right. This is, as Chef Mai Ly describes it, “vegetarian food with a Vietnamese twist” – not the other way around. Her food is as colorful as the eatery’s décor; look for bright, crisp plating and a vibrant color palette that makes for a cheery, modern feel. Though there are a handful of dishes prepared with faux soy-based meats, many of Chef Mai’s signature dishes put veggies, fungi and legumes center stage. Try a tofu

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Spicy lemongrass soup at Fresh Mint (Photo by Niki D’Andrea)

Natural Grocers produce is all organically grown without chemical pesticides.

Prices at Natural Grocers average around 10 to 20 percent off what you’ll pay at other specialty retailers.

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fitnessintheairpark Tiffany Milliman teaches hot cycling at Recess Endurance Training.

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Cycle Recess Endurance Training’s spin classes bring the heat.

By Wayne Schutsky / Photos by Kimberly Carrillo

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hile most Arizonans in the middle of summer fret over A/C-inflated electric bills, Katie Landa laments the detrimental effects the 100-plus degree weather has on her building’s heating system. That’s because heat – and lots of it – is a core component of the fitness instructor’s performance spin classes at Recess Endurance Training.

“It should be 88 to 90 degrees, but we’re probably not there yet,” Landa says from her position at the front of the class, surrounded by a semicircle of spin cycles. Every bike is occupied.

As the heat kicks into high gear and the room warms up, Landa smiles, turns on the pop music and starts the class.

The next hour would look very familiar to anyone who has attended a spin class before. Landa, perched on her cycle at the front of the class, instructs the participants throughout the hour-long course while intermittently yelling out resistance changes and referencing the bikes’ RPM monitors to dictate speed.

It’s almost like a normal spin class, with one huge caveat: the heat.

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I've felt it firsthand.

For the first 20 minutes or so, I worked up a decent sweat but did not feel too challenged by the rising temps. After all, 90 degrees is hot, but the weather outside is 15 to 20 degrees hotter.

As a native Arizonan, I was not about to be shut down by what is effectively springtime weather. However, as the red digital clock on my cycle neared the 25-minute mark, I began to feel it. My breathing became more labored and my legs began having a more difficult time recovering from the stretches of high-resistance spinning. I cherished the brief moments of low-tension cycling, so my aching legs could recover.

And the sweat. I cannot forget the sweat.

Despite living in the Valley for nearly three decades, I had never felt sweat come out of my fingertips before.

If spinning in 90-degree heat doesn’t sound like enough of a challenge, Landa ups the ante with crunches. Throughout the class, she instructs participants to dismount and bust out a set of 100 crunches.

How many sets? That depends. Usually she sticks with 300, but I was lucky enough to visit on a day when Landa turned the quota up to 500 crunches. I definitely did not skip any.

Still, I, somewhat surprisingly, enjoyed myself.

I am not a masochist, but there was something very gratifying about finishing the grueling class.

That, in addition to the physical benefits associated with cycling for an hour and pumping out 500 crunches, left me feeling accomplished after the course.

I even felt, dare I say, energized after the class and experienced very little soreness in the following days.

But the best part of the class is probably the ice-cold frozen towel Landa met each of us with as we exited the room.

Landa, a longtime fan of hot yoga, chose to incorporate heat into her classes, because it adds flexibility and helps athletes increase their endurance in both hot and cold climates, she says. “It takes discipline and focus. The typical workout is intensified (by the heat).”

Despite that intensity, Recess Endurance Training is not just for serious athletes or gym

rats. Landa caters to a wide range of customers and typically sees people between the ages of 40 and 60 who want to stay active and remain fit and flexible as they age.

“I like the accountability,” frequent spinner Theresa Fendrick says. “It’s tough so it keeps me motivated.”

Fendrick took advantage of the gym’s free three-class trial offer and now attends three to four classes a week.

That is a typical story at the gym, where most customers are regulars who come to multiple classes a week either as their primary form of fitness or to complement other workouts and sports throughout the week.

These regulars do not come back just for the workouts, though. Landa has made efforts to build a clean and comfortable gym and encourages clients to stick around after class and chat. Morning

workout warriors will even show up early for a cup of coffee and to hang out before class, according to Landa.

Recess Endurance Training also doubles as a networking opportunity for Landa’s clients because of its prime location. Tucked into an assuming building in the heart of the Airpark, the gym attracts plenty of business people from the area who use the time before and after class to mingle, Landa says.

In addition to spin classes, Recess Endurance Training offers core conditioning and strength training courses – also with heat. The gym, located at 14811 N. 73rd Street, offers various packages, and prices range from $20 for a drop-in class to $700 for an unlimited six-month pass. Interested customers can also take advantage of a free three-class trial.

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Clothed Case Cloud Creations brings dress-up dreams to life with custom costumes.

Cloud Creations makes elaborate custom costumes for the stage.

By Marilyn Hawkes

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alking into Cloud Creations and Fly by Night Costumes is like slipping into a giant world of make believe chock-full of Arabian Nights costumes, French maid outfits, gunslinger attire and zombie getups.

Owner Pam “Gazelle” Robertson, a native Arizonan, explains that her five-year-old Scottsdale Airpark shop has three components: Cloud Creations is the costume design studio, Fly by Night Costume Rentals is the rental arm and Cloud Creations Boutique sells clothing and jewelry items, including belly dance costumes, scarves, shawls, vintage clothing and bridal gowns.

The shop stocks a large selection of rental costumes, ranging in price from $65 to about $150 per day, and Robertson works with each person to pick out the perfect costume. But if you don’t find what you’re looking for, Robertson can custom-design a costume for you. “My costumes last a long time because they’re high quality,” she says.

Robertson enjoys working with different fabrics, beads and rhinestones and is known for her handpainted silks. She frequents vintage shops to find clothes she can remake or use for repurposed fabrics. “It’s kind of fun to take something old and recreate it with something new like adding some lace or a lining,” she says.

Robertson’s dream was to become an actress, but she never made it to the stage.

Once drama teachers at Scottsdale’s Coronado High School discovered Robertson could sew, they put her on costume detail.

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(Photos courtesy Pam Robertson)

Cloud Creations founder Pam Robertson wears a flapper costume.

From there she went to Arizona State University and studied art and fashion and eventually was hired by the university as a costume designer, a job she held for 10 years. She subsequently owned a series of costume shops in different locations across the Valley.

Today, Robertson’s livelihood comes from designing costumes for local theater and dance companies, including Desert Dance Theatre and Dancers Domain. She also does a big Halloween business and rentals surge around Comicon, Mardi Gras, New Year’s Eve and various theme parties throughout the year.

While she hasn’t had too many strange requests for costumes, probably the most interesting was making the original pink

A mermaid costume by Cloud Creations

and white Artie the Artichoke costume for Scottsdale Community College in the early ‘70s. Recently, she made a purple costume for Butch Patrick, who played Eddie Munster on the ‘60s TV sitcom The Munsters.

Costume design isn’t Robertson’s only creative outlet. After the store closes, she moves the costume racks aside and teaches belly dancing a couple of nights a week and heads a 10-member dance troupe called Astarte.  Cloud Creations/Fly by Night Costumes 13216 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale 480-990-7278, cloudcreationscostumes.com

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Jordan Coleman leads an unconventional band at Impact Church.

By Douglas McDaniel

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aybe 100 yards from the Impact Church complex, you can hear the music. It’s in the wind. But then another jet goes by -zoom! When that din dies again, the audio broadcast through the outdoor speakers gets louder as you get closer. And then you enter the main auditorium and are led to a seat, as if you arrived just a tad late for the opera.

The main thing at the beginning of this last set of four shows is the 10-piece band: drums, two keyboards, bass, three guitars and three background singers. Then Pastor Travis Hearn begins basic tree-stump humorist/preacher honest talk for the common man.

Two large video screens on either side of the stage blast the message of this medium: That God rocks. Jesus loves the Beatles. You rock for being here.

“It’s all very missional,” says bandleader Jordan Coleman. “We are aimed at people who are unchurched, or people who were burned by the church. We are trying to help people who haven’t been there for a while.”

It’s just good communications theory. His explanation of what inspired the star logo on the stage and in the media material will suffice, from Philippians 2:15: “...so that you may become blameless and pure children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation. Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky.”

This is heady stuff for any generation. You put the good news in front of someone with music played by Earthbound angels – for example, Coleman has never had a sip of alcohol in his life (“I have never tasted alcohol. At communion we only did grape juice”) -- and you end up with an army of bumper stickers across Valley highways stating “Impact Church.”

“We are not trying to have church,” Coleman says. “We are trying to be the church.”

Coleman, 31, was born in Page, up in the stark expanse of the broad waters of Lake Powell, sandstone canyons and incredible cultural isolation. He is the son of an Assemblies of God pastor.

“We were raised Pentecostal, but I was only there as a baby,” he says. “We kept moving every two years, spent seven years in Ohio, a couple of years in Tennessee, then we moved to Austin, Texas.” And so, his path followed the soul train of the heartland

sound, and therefore, in terms of being a musician, he says, “I never really had any choice.”

So when the lights go down at noon in the stagy cathedral, the musicians come out first. Coleman wears a blue shirt, baggy black pants, and white sneakers with black straps. These are clothes for aerobics. And rock stars. After a straightforward Christian rock song, most likely an original from some member of the band built on collaboration, they play a truncated version of the Beatles’ “Got to Get You into My Life,” and it works. He sings in a high tenor.

“I joke that I have the voice of a woman,” Coleman says.

Naturally, the woman singer follows next, reminding one of Florence + The Machine, especially when she raises her hand in the air, hopping on her feet as if she could get airborne right along with the Learjets unheard outside. That is his wife, Manuela Coleman, and anyone can see how married they are, emotionally and musically.

This band is as tight as a Las Vegas act.

“These musicians are so gifted and we have a rotation of (maybe 30 people),” Coleman says. “The crazy thing about Arizona is it’s the most musician-connected place I’ve ever witnessed.”

Impact Church is located at 15650 N. 83rd Way, Scottsdale. For more information, call 480-926-6752 or visit impactchurch.com.  Impact Church bandleader Jordan Coleman says the ministry is aimed at “people who are unchurched.”

(Photo by Tim Sealy)

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Fly-In Vacation: A new look at the Old Pueblo reveals superlative Mexican food and nature recreation.

By Niki D’Andrea

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espite the ASU vs. U of A rivalry (or maybe partly because of it), Phoenix and Tucson make great neighbors.

The two desert metropolises have their own merits, but Tucson takes the lead when it comes to Mexican food. The Old Pueblo was deemed a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) City of Gastronomy in 2015 – the first city in the United States to receive the

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Spanish Colonial Mission San Xavier del Bac continues to serve the surrounding Native communities.

distinction. Tucson boasts the “Best 23 Miles of Mexican Food” in the entire country, and that’s not just marketing tinsel for tourists.

It’s a fact.

There’s little doubt the chimichanga was invented in Arizona – but whether it was born in Phoenix or Tucson has been the subject of a decades-old debate almost as heated as the ASU/UA football rivalry. One story goes that in 1922, Monica Flin, founder of El Charro restaurant (which still thrives in Tucson), accidentally dropped a burrito into the deep-fat fryer. But Woody Johnson, founder of Macayo’s, claimed he created the chimichanga on purpose through experimentation at his Phoenix restaurant El Nido in 1946. Whatever version of events one chooses to believe, the chimichanga

(Photo by Niki D’Andrea)

The Downtown Clifton hotel is located near city-center nightlife and restaurants.

(Photo courtesy Town of Marana)

Marana Regional Airport

Marana Regional Airport Coordinates: 32°24'34.40" N 111°13'06.20" W Distance from Scottsdale Airport: 110 miles Aviation services: charter services, aircraft maintenance, self-service Avgas 100LL fuel, full-service Jet A and Avgas 100LL fuel, line services Flight time: 25 minutes Drive time: 1 hour, 40 minutes A mural at the Downtown Clifton speaks to the hotel’s hip vibe.

taurant called Sky Rider Café (aka Sky Rider Coffee Shop). Established in 1982, the café serves hamburgers, hearty spaghetti with (Photo by Niki D’Andrea) garlic toast, pulled-pork sandwiches and similar fare in a homey, aviation-themed dining room.

Once you get into the city, there are tons of restaurants to choose from, as well as a fleet of fantastic food trucks and street cart vendors selling Sonoran hot dogs and homemade tacos and tamales.

(See the “Top Five Tucson Restaurants” sidebar to this story for a quick-hit guide.)

But since no one can just eat all the time, it’s a good View from the pedestrian bridge at JW idea to get out and recreate Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa and try to experience some of the natural wonders (Photo by Niki D’Andr ea) of Tucson – such as e n d u re s a n d s e e m s hiking and birding in to grow cheesier and cactus-dappled Sabino meatier all over Tucson.

Canyon; taking in the But it’s not just the towering green majesty chimichangas that of Saguaro National charm the palate. It’s Park; maybe even bicyalso the chilaquiles, the cling around the scenic albondigas, the sopaipil120-mile shared-use las, the quesadillas and path called The Loop so many other things that links metro Tucson that are almost as much to Marana, Oro Valley fun to say as they are to and south Tucson. eat. If your flight works Yo u c o u l d a l s o (Photo by Niki D’Andrea) up an appetite, there’s explore Colossal Cave Colossal Cave Mountain Park in Vail no shortage of gastroMountain Park in offers a variety of subterranean tours. nomic options, starting nearby Vail, where as soon as you land at people can take guided Marana Regional Airport (maranaaz.gov/ tours of a fascinating underground world, airport), about 24 miles north of Tucson. full of formations from flowstone and Built as a training base for military pilots in helictite to stalactites and stalagmites. Not 1943, the airport spans 571 acres and has two asphalt runways, as well as an excellent res…continues on page 40

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…continued from page 39 far off in Benson, Kartchner Caverns State Park offers a similar subterranean circuit.

Go from the depths of the Earth high into the sky with a stop at the Pima Air & Space Museum, which houses civilian and military aircraft of every type from every era, as well as a beautifully apocalyptic 2,600-acre “boneyard” that includes several planes painted by Arizona artists for a special exhibition a few years ago. Stay high with a planned visit to Kitt Peak Observatory on Kitt Peak (elevation: 6,883 feet) and see the sky like you never have before through telescopes larger than a freight truck.

History buffs, religious pilgrims and architecture appreciators all venture to Mission San Xavier del Bac, about 10 miles south of downtown Tucson. The Spanish Catholic mission, founded by Father Eusebio Francesco Kino in 1692, continues to be run by Franciscans and serves the surrounding Native community. The mission’s mix of Moorish and Spanish Colonial architecture, resplendent against the desert landscape

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Primo: This upscale Italian restaurant embedded in JW Marriott at Starr Pass Resort is helmed by James Beard Awardwinning chef Melissa Kelly and uses ingredients plucked fresh from its abundant on-site garden. (marriott.com) Downtown Kitchen + Cocktails: Serving a combination of New American Cuisine and dishes with influences from Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and, of course, Latin America, DKC is a longtime local favorite. (downtownkitchen.com) Café Poca Cosa: Chef/owner Susan Davila’s Mexican food menu changes twice a day, so visitors can be perpetually surprised while counting on an always-tasty infusion of indigenous ingredients. (cafepocacosatucson.com) Elvira’s Mexican Restaurant & Cantina: Traditional Mexican food and a ton of tequilas, along with colorful folk-art décor, make Elvira’s a great place for social meals with friends and family. (elvirastucson.com) The Coronet: This hip eatery, located inside the Coronado Hotel, offers hearty but healthful fare including duck salad and roasted chicken with tomatillo. (cafecoronet.com)

in white stucco, is worth a meditative moment and maybe a selfie or two.

Tucson’s lodging options accommodate every place, personal taste and price point. People who want to stay in the center of the action without breaking the bank can check into The Downtown Clifton (downtowntucsonhotel.com), a funky Midcentury Modern meets Southwest-style motel located within walking distance of the best bars and nightlife in the center of the city.

Hotel Congress (hotelcongress.com) also boasts a prime location downtown, as well as a popular live music venue called Club Congress that sees a gamut of acts on its stages, from ‘90s rockers The Toadies and modern rock sensation Max Frost to hip-hop artist Brother Ali and New York noise rockers Unsane. Built in 1918, the hotel also has a Hollywood-like history: Bank robber John Dillinger was captured there in 1934 while trying to flee a fire on the third floor. But with a mere 40 rooms, it tends to be booked to the max, at least during most of the winter and spring months.

Guests seeking a more idyllic stay away from the crowds and bright city lights will love JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa (marriott.com), a paradisiacal place of pools, nature hiking trails, golf, nightly tequila toasts and Native morning rituals. 

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Strings

Urban Electra turns classic rock songs into rockin’ classical jams.

By Niki D’Andrea

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Urban Electra plans to play crowd-pleasers at the seasonal Sips and Sounds series.

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It’s not unusual to hear somebody drunkenly bellow this familiar heckle at a rock ‘n’ roll show, especially toward a band that primarily plays cover songs. It’s less likely to hear it directed at a string quartet – unless that quartet is Valley-based Urban Electra, in which case, “Freebird” is a frequent request.

So is the Charlie Daniels Band’s “Devil Went Down to Georgia” and the Johnny Cash classic “Orange Blossom Special.”

Unlike a traditional string quartet, which consists of two violinists, a viola player and a cellist performing mostly Baroque and Classical music, Urban Electra turn their strings onto classic rock and contemporary alternative rock songs. “We play cover tunes by artists that the average American knows – Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, or something more modern like Muse or U2,” explains Urban Electra violinist Carrie Caruso, who also arranges all the quartet’s covers for strings.

“We pick music to hopefully connect with every age group, [and hope] that someone will like at least one song we perform that we’ve arranged.”

Urban Electra plans to play a plethora of crowd-pleasers when they kick off the seasonal Sips and Sounds free concert series at the Shops at Gainey Village the evening of Friday, November 2. Visitors to the village can browse the boutique shops before the event (which runs from 6 to 8 p.m.), and then enjoy free sodas while Urban Electra plays tunes by artists such as the Beatles, the Cranberries, Coldplay and even Eminem. Food will be available for purchase from several of the village’s restaurants, including Drexyl, Urban Kitchen, Soi 4 Bangkok Eatery, Pomo Pizza Napoletana, Hash Kitchen and The Living Room.

“I think people love entertainment, especially if it’s free, and if there’s something else there, like a wine tasting or some shop-

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ping,” says Caruso, who played with Urban Electra at Gainey Village last year but will be performing at the Sips and Sounds series for the first time.

Growing up in Detroit around a musically inclined family, Caruso began playing instruments at a very young age, first tinkering by ear on the “beat up” family piano in the dining room and eventually starting violin lessons in school when she was 10. A couple of years

later, she began taking private violin lessons, and in 1994, she moved to Arizona, where she began performing freelance gigs and studied under the late Dr. Frank Spinosa at ASU. Formal classical music training can be an intense experience requiring endless hours of listening and analysis, and it was such saturation, Caruso says, that attracted her to rock ’n’ roll, R&B and other modern music styles.

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literature, especially when you’re attending a school of music. You have to listen to classical music, you’re analyzing cassical music, and if I never hear… another Beethoven piano sonata, that would be just fine with me,” she says with a laugh.

Her siblings also held some sonic sway. “I’m the youngest of five children, and my oldest brothers are 11 and 12 years older than me,” Caruso says. “Growing up in the ‘70s, that was a major influence, because I always heard the classic rock. I just really enjoyed that era – the ‘60s and ‘70s in rock ’n’ roll – and surprisingly, it translates very well for a string quartet.”

But rearranging classic and modern rock, pop and hip-hop songs for classical instruments isn’t as straightforward as plugging into an amplifier and reading sheet music. Caruso typically takes the bass guitar in a song and turns it into cello parts, translates rhythm guitar, keyboard or piano parts into viola or second violin and rewrites lead vocals or primary melody for first violin.

“To really give it a nice original twist – and interest for the audience so they don’t really know who’s going to be playing what – I like to give a solo or a verse or a chorus or feature all the members in each of our shows, so each member is just as important as the first violin,” Caruso says, adding, “So the bass player – or the cello player, in this case – doesn’t get too bored just playing a bunch of ‘footballs,’ as we call them, whole notes or quarter-notes or just a regular, driving bass rhythm, which is fairly simple in rock and roll, but R&B and hip-hop tunes get a little more interesting for the bass line.”

Caruso’s Urban Electra bandmates – violinist Ikuko Kanda, cellist Melanie Yarger and viola player Verrona Grandil – are also classically trained players who bring a sleek edge to their craft, capable of rendering the Eurythmics’ “Sweet Dreams” into a suspenseful, foot-stomping string jam and morphing Muse’s “Uprising” into a symphonic gallop. One of Caruso’s favorite songs she’s arranged and enjoys performing is Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters.”

“That’s kind of a dark piece, but it’s very emotional in the way the arrangement keeps true to the original form of Metallica’s piece, being instrumental,” she says. “It’s been very fun to really create some dissonance and resolutions, to really keep that emotion.”

Fans will be pleased to know Caruso has arranged “Orange Blossom Special” (“with a twist of ‘Crazy Train’ by Ozzy Osbourne,” she says) as well as “Devil Went Down to Georgia” for performances this season. She hopes to debut them in the spring.

“Freebird” is still not in their repertoire. 

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During the 1960s, many residents were impacted by floods of the Indian Bend Wash.

(Scottsdale Historical Society photo)

By Joan Fudala

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ith images of Hurricane Harvey storm damage and the resulting epic flooding that recently ravaged Houston and other Texas Gulf Coast communities, Scottsdale old-timers may recall some significant storms of our own. Despite our image as a “dry” town, Scottsdale and the Valley of the Sun are often hit with torrential rains, and not just in the July/August monsoon season.

Here are a few microbursts of Scottsdale storm history:  In prehistoric times, the Hohokam people hand-dug a system of canals from the Salt River to irrigate crops and control periods of drought and flooding. When settlers came to Central Arizona after the Civil War, they reactivated these ancient canals.

Between 1883-85, W.J. Murphy constructed the Arizona Canal to further regulate the unpredictable water flow across the valley.  On February 20, 1891, The Arizona Republican dramatically wrote on its front page: “People were greeted yesterday morning with a dull roar coming from the south that foretold that Salt River was an angry, raging stream carrying

destruction in its wake.

From early morning every kind of conveyance was brought into use by those anxious to gaze upon the roaring torrent…The early alarm of yesterday morning had been heeded by most of those Schools and businesses often living close to the river shut down during floods of the and women and chilIndian Bend Wash and Salt River dren had been moved in the 1960s and 1970s. to places of safety. The (Scottsdale Historical Society photo) men in most cases stuck doggedly to their homes but steadily the in nearly three decades.” The newspaper water kept creeping higher and higher also said that “Seventeen breaks in the until it began to be plain that a flood was Arizona Canal northeast of Phoenix and coming, the like of which was never known in the Scottsdale district poured a flood in Central Arizona.” of water into nearby homes, damaging  In 1939, massive flooding of Salt floors, walls and furnishings. Laterals River and Indian Bend Wash – also called and waste ditches were damaged when “the slough” – occurred over Labor Day they overflowed. Citrus orchards near weekend. A page one article in The Arizona the canal breaks were badly cut by deep Republic reported the storm “brought washes.” Southern Pacific rail service was the city and Valley an all-time record for …continues on page 44 intense rain and the heaviest precipitation October 2017 Scottsdale Airpark News | 43

Avis Read’s Stable Gallery on McDonald Drive flooded in the 1960s.

(Scottsdale Historical Society photo)

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interrupted due to a track washout.  Again in 1943, a major summer storm flooded the Salt River and Indian Bend Wash. According to The Arizona Republic, on August 4, “a youth was killed and three trainmen were injured when a rain-weakened culvert bridge 1½ miles east of the Tovrea Packing Company (near Sky Harbor Airport) collapsed about 6 a.m. yesterday, plunging a Southern Pacific locomotive and seven freight cars into a desert wash.” Heavy summer rains also flooded Thunderbird II Airfield, temporarily grounding U.S. Army Air Corps aviation cadets stationed there for basic flight training. Since the runway and taxiway were not paved, the rains created quite a mess.  As Scottsdale’s population grew after World War II and the town incorporated, it became more important to reduce the impact to residents, students and businesses that occurred every time the Indian Bend Wash flooded – bisecting the town and stranding those on either side until the waters subsided.  In December 1959, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers held a public meeting to present a plan for concrete channelization of the Indian Bend Wash as a flood-control mechanism. In January 1962, the Scottsdale City Council approved the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ plan for a concrete channel to control floods of the Indian Bend Wash, then the Corps held public hearings in February on the plan. In December, the City Council passed Resolution 235 endorsing construction of a flood-control channel.  With the early 1960s construction and opening of

Saguaro High School’s football field, shown at the top of the photo, was impacted by a flood in 1972.

the Villa Monterey project (townhomes, golf course, c ou n t ry cl u b ) b e t w e e n Camelback and Chaparral in and along the yet-tobe-improved Indian Bend Wash, the private sector demonstrated that a grass-lined channel in lieu of concrete could minimize flood impact. In August 1964, a citizen committee headed by landscape architect Bill Walton recommended to City Council that the city create a greenbelt of parks rather than

neighborhoods and bisecting the city. Schools closed; many people couldn’t get to work and there were daylong power outages.  On December 15, 1967, Sc o t ts dale sch ools an d many businesses closed when over two inches of rain fell within 48 hours and the Indian Bend Wash flooded, preventing cars from crossing from one side of Scottsdale to the other (no bridges). Some residents were without water due to the wash-out of a water line from a private water company serving the Cactus (Scottsdale Historical Society photo) Road area. According to the concrete box channel recommended the Scottsdale Daily Progress (Dec. 15), “an by the Army Corps of Engineers for flood Army National Guard truck and flat-bed control – and thus the Indian Bend Wash trailer was used to transport about 10 Post project was born.

Office scooters across the wash so that  While the city of Scottsdale, Maricopa mail delivery could continue, Postmaster County and the U.S. Army Corps of En- O.C. Wilson said.” On Dec. 19-20, the wash gineers continued to study how to tame flooding got worse; over 100 residents of the Indian Bend Wash’s perennial floods, homes in the Vista del Camino area of those floods continued to wreak havoc on the wash were evacuated to St. Daniel the Scottsdale. During a torrential rainstorm Prophet Catholic Church. The Red Cross in September 1966 (related to Hurricane also offered assistance to the evacuees. The Helga), part of the Arizona Canal (at Pima Scottsdale Chamber of Commerce and the and Granite Reef) collapsed, flooding Scottsdale Daily Progress organized a food and clothing drive to aid not only Scottsdale flooding victims, but those around the Valley and state. Local residents donated several tons of food, clothes and bedding.

A temporary bridge was erected to connect Scottsdale and Tempe after flooding of the Salt River prevented cars from passing through the river bottom, and funding for a permanent bridge was sought by both cities, the county and state.  Heavy rains in late July 1968 flooded the lower level of the Scottsdale Public Library, then housed in the Little Red Schoolhouse (now the Scottsdale Historical Museum).

The front page of the July 31 edition of the Scottsdale Daily Progress carried a photo of a librarian air-drying some of the 200 damaged books outside the library. Less than two months later, another storm flooded Scottsdale, including the then-new Eldorado Park and the area where the (Scottsdale Public Library archives) Chicago Cubs would conduct some of their

In 1973, Scottsdale voters approved bonds to finance construction of the Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt Flood Control Project.

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A rare tornado touched down in Scottsdale’s Cactus Road corridor in June 1972.

…continued from page 45 spring training workouts.  A major flood over Labor Day Weekend 1970 caused evacuation of residents of the Indian Bend Wash and much property damage. The Arizona National Guard and Red Cross assisted victims.  In 1971, the city received a $1.6 million federal urban renewal grant to finance purchase of residential lots in the neighborhood known as Vista Del Camino and to purchase downtown properties for the renewal project that created Civic Center Mall. The city purchased 8.3 acres in the Vista Del Camino wash area, and through the city’s Neighborhood Development Program, new homes were built for qualified residents of Vista Del Camino, who were being relocated for their safety and the construction of the Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt Flood Control Project.  During the 1960s and 1970s, when the Indian Bend Wash was yet to be improved as a flood control greenbelt, the City of Scottsdale provided emergency information during storm periods via KDOT radio. Residents were told where they could pick up sandbags and which roads would be closed due to flooding.

Garbage trucks were used as mobile barriers to keep motorists out of flooded low-lying streets.  Three floods in 1972 caused an estimated $3.5 million in damages in Scottsdale. On June 21, a rare tornado destroyed or damaged property in the Cactus Road equestrian corridor. At the onset of a storm in October, a city employee interrupted the Sabercat football game at the then-new Saguaro High School, advising those in attendance that “they had better start heading for home if they did not want to spend the night at the stadium” due to its location in the Indian Bend Wash, according to the Oct. 7, 1972 Scottsdale Daily Progress.  In 1973, Scottsdale voters approved a bond issue to fund the long-awaited Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt Flood Control Project.

One of the first segments to be dedicated was the McDowell Exhibit Plaza. A flood of the Indian Bend Wash in March damaged the McDowell Exhibit Plaza in 1977.  March 1978 rains caused massive flooding of Salt River and washed out bridges, cutting off Tempe and the East Valley from Scottsdale. Since it was tax season,

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(City of Scottsdale photo)

one Scottsdale accounting firm had to get creative in getting its computer punch cards with its client tax information to its computer center in the East Valley. They hired a college student to put the punch cards in his backpack and ride them across the only bridge in operation – the Tempe Bridge – on his bike.  The Indian Bend Wash Greenbelt Flood Control Project was formally dedicated in late April 1985 after 20 years in the making and a superb example of citizen participation and municipal innovation. Ironically, the ceremony was cut short by rain. The wash’s series of parks and recreational facilities garnered many awards and has provided scenic beauty, family fun and effective flood control for decades.  In the fall of 1987, a funnel cloud dropped from an extremely high cloud

hovering over Scottsdale Airport, ripping off the side of a large hangar.  A mid-July 2001 microburst, with winds as high as 80 miles per hour, brought down power lines and caused damage in the area of Indian Bend and Scottsdale road, including at the McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park. One motorist was killed; others were trapped in their vehicles.  Following Hurricane Katrina’s devastation to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Alabama and Mississippi in August/ September 2005, many Scottsdale churches and nonprofit agencies aided storm victims.

Who knows what the next rainstorm will bring? But thanks to the partnership between citizens and their city, we’ll be prepared… and generous, as usual, to any storm victims. 

Residents living at the southern end of the Indian Bend Wash were often flooded out of their homes; the City of Scottsdale provided trailers until new homes could be built in the Vista Del Camino neighborhood.

(City of Scottsdale photo)

Restaurateur Sam Fox hosts Phoenix’s first No Kid Hungry Dinner

By Niki D’Andrea

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am Fox is synonymous with big numbers. The CEO of Fox Restaurant Concepts has 16 concepts in 60 locations across more than 10 states. There are six FRC locations in the Scottsdale Airpark area alone. In 2014, he was named to Nation’s Restaurant News’ Power List of the 50 most influential people in the industry. He’s been nominated for the James Beard Foundation’s Restaurateur of the Year Award nine times, but has yet to win.

You could associate him with just big things, in general. Big ideas. A big smile. A big heart. Fox, an Arcadia resident, is a lifetime member of the Thunderbirds charitable organization and consistently contributes time, resources and money to local organizations in his Phoenix neighborhood, like the Boys & Girls Clubs, Audubon Arizona and Phoenix Arcadia Rotary Club.

Through a fundraiser at his Flower Child restaurants, he helped Arcadia High School plant a new campus garden.

His company has also been a longtime supporter of the national No Kid Hungry campaign, which inspired the upcoming first No Kid Hungry dinner in Phoenix, slated for October 16 at Fox’s Culinary Dropout at The Yard in Tempe. “We’ve been doing things for the last couple years where we raise money in the restaurants, and we’ve given money to the national campaign. And that’s how we’ve been supporting it,” Fox says. “But this is the first year where the campaign has been in Arizona and where all the money will stay in Arizona.”

The No Kid Hungry dinner will feature food from Fox Restaurant Concepts chef Chris Curtiss with guest chefs Aaron Chamberlin (Phoenix Public Market Café, St. Francis), Scott Holmes (Little Miss BBQ), Jason Raducha (Noble Bread), Doug Robson (Gallo Blanco, Otro Cafe) and Chris Newstrom of Upward Projects. Fox will host the event, which begins with a cocktail reception at 6 p.m. A three-course dinner and live auction follows at 7.

“All the money we’re raising, 100 percent of it is being donated to local organizations, so every penny we get, the money will stay here to grow local organizations,” Fox says. “We’re supplying all the food, all the labor, the facilities, plus also raising a whole bunch of money through tickets for the event. It’s a great event, and the dollars are going to go a long way because we don’t have any expenses to pass on. We hope people get behind it. We’re getting close to two-thirds of the way sold out already, which is good, and this is something we hope to do again and support for a long time.”

“We have a passion for this and an obligation to give back to the community,” he continues. “This is a great event and a great charity that a lot of chefs support, and we’re proud to be part of it.”

(Photo by Susan Valkar-Limongelli)

Fox, 49, has been an Arizona resident since his family moved to Tucson from Chicago when he was 5. He’s lived in Phoenix for more than two decades with his wife, Emily, and their children Noah, 12, and Chloe, 10. He’s been part of a culinary community almost all his life, as well. His father was a restaurateur and opened The Hungry Fox, which still operates in Tucson under different ownership. In 1998, Sam Fox opened his first restaurant, Wildflower American Cuisine, in Tucson.

Nineteen years later, his epicurean empire has propagated faster than rumors on the internet. There are six Fox concepts around the Airpark alone – True Food Kitchen, Juby True, Flower Child, The Greene House, Zinburger and North Italia. And while the old joke about asking an artist to name their favorite creation is like asking a parent to name their favorite child may hold metaphorically true for some, Fox can easily name a few of his favorites dishes: edamame dumplings at True Food Kitchen, the smoked salmon appetizer at The Greene House, white truffle garlic bread at North Italia.

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his concepts, Fox says, “It’s got a great demographic.

There are a lot of families that live up north, and there’s also a great mix of business and tourism, as well. So we have incredible support from our locals, whether it’s DC Ranch, McDowell Mountain Ranch, Fountain Hills, all the way up to over by Desert Ridge – we have a good footprint of our local guests supporting us on a regular basis.”

“When you mix that in with the daily business needs that the Airpark provides for the community, and then also the great tourism – the Kierlands, the Scottsdale Quarters, all the great retail and golf that’s in the area, as well… it just has a great, dynamic mixture of regulars, locals, businesspeople and tourism.”

He hopes people from all over metro Phoenix, including Scottsdale, make the trek to Tempe for the No Kid Hungry event. “We’re trying to raise a bunch of money,” Fox says. “We’re selling tables and sponsorships and it’s going really, really well.

We’ve reached out to a lot of our best clients, our vendors, some friends of mine, my bank. I brought in a lot of people that I do business with. So I think we’re gonna raise a lot of money. We had a goal of $25,000 and I think we’re already up to $50,000.

We’re really excited about the support we’re getting from people in the community.”

For more information about Fox Restaurant Concepts, visit frc.com. For more information about the No Kid Hungry dinner in Phoenix, visit nokidhungry.org/Phoenix. 

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As the executive chef of the Musical Instrument Museum’s Café Allegro, Lenza and his staff serve creative dishes they’ve made from farm-fresh Arizona ingredients.

“I start with what’s in season,” Lenza says. “That’s our priority: What are we getting that’s picked at its freshest point during the day or week?”

During a recent lunch, Café Allegro offered a chicken and red chile enchilada made from local chicken, salsa, radish, lime and queso fresco from Two Wash Ranch in New River. The marinated double chicken breast sandwich has local herbs, garlic and Queen Creek Olive Mill extra virgin olive oil on an MJ Bread brioche bun.

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An organic strawberry and heirloom tomato salad features local organic greens with hard-boiled cage-free egg, cucumbers, goat feta cheese from Buckeye-based Crow's Dairy, sunflower seed and balsamic vinaigrette on top.

Sometimes items are chosen even closer to home.

The kitchen gets creative with the prickly pear fruit from the cactus in front of the building.

“We harvested the prickly pear two summers ago,” he says. “We made hot sauce out of them. I have a passionate team. They come in and they want to learn. They want to see new things.”

Portions of the menu change daily. The fixtures are found at the grill station, which serves Arizona grass-fed beef burgers, the herb-marinated chicken breast sandwich, Schreiner ’s hot dogs and its award-winning vegetable and bean burger. Not all ingredients are local, but there is an emphasis on it.

“I write the menus 10 days in advance, and then we go from there,” Lenza says. “There are some parts of the menus that change every day. Our local dish may change, as may the global and soup items and pastries. Our grab-and-go items change seasonally.”

Café Allegro Musical Instrument Museum

A Scranton, Pennsylvania native, Lenza has worked in Philadelphia, Europe, Manhattan, New Orleans and at Wild Horse Pass Resort’s Kai restaurant in Chandler. His time with the MIM began in March 2010, when he was hired as a sous chef at Café Allegro, which is run by Bon Appetit Management Company. He was promoted to executive chef in March 2013.

“I love Phoenix. I love Arizona,” he says. “I love the products that come out of here.”

Lenza prides himself on using fresh ingredients and cooking from scratch, which helps him and his staff of eight to 10 accommodate food allergies or preferences. He just asks that guests contact him prior to their visits to “go up and down the menu to accommodate.”

“We make everything here, including soup, stocks, pastries, croissants, flavored water, coldbrew coffee, just to mention a few,” he says.

“Myself and my team are really proud of the accommodations we can make. Currently, we’re

seeing the need for a celiac-friendly menu and we certainly have that in place. It just takes a simple phone call. The cooks are very knowledgeable.”

That goes for the entire staff, he’s quick to add.

“The museum staff is professional

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Veneto Trattoria’s wine selection ensures a perfect pairing with any plate.

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A shaded patio welcomes diners to Veneto Trattoria.

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ou can’t count on anything these days. We live in an era of exploding cellphone batteries and momentary trends, when celebrity singers cancel their tours without warning and longtime retailers go bankrupt. The restaurant industry seems in a constant state of flux – especially in the Phoenix Metro, where around 60 new eateries opened in the first half of 2017 and a dozen more closed. So when I hear a restaurant has been around in the Valley for 20 years and rates 4.6 stars in Zagat’s online guide, I wonder what their secret is.

Roberto and Susan Rossi opened Veneto Trattoria in the Hilton Village shopping plaza on Scottsdale Road back in 1997, at the start of the fast-casual food revolution. The upscale, full-service eatery was designed in homage to Roberto’s homeland, the northeastern region of Italy that includes Venice as well as the Shakespearean cities of Verona and Padua. Veneto’s parchment-colored

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walls resemble traditional Venetian plaster. The acoustics are designed for conversation and the tables covered in white linens.

At Veneto, not much has changed since 1997 – and that’s a good thing. The dining room is spotless, with nary a speck of dust on the Italian plates, framed playing cards, and Carnivale di Venezia masks lining the walls. Though the paint and furnishings were refreshed and new art added with the Rossi’s overseas travels, Veneto-born chef Massimo Brunelli has been heading the kitchen from day uno. “The entire staff is a family,” he says. “Everyone works well together and they all respect and appreciate each other’s work, which makes for a comfortable environment.” Brunelli and assistant manager Remo Gerra, also on

Squid ink pasta showcases the chef’s delicate hand with seafood.

staff since opening day, know many of Veneto’s regular customers by name.

The eatery’s earliest patrons would recognize many of Veneto’s current offerings, including two house specialties: baccala mantecato (salt-cured cod) and fegato alla veneziana (calf’s liver). The cod is soaked in a salt solution for several days before being

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…continued from page 52 combined with olive oil and blended into an airy mousse. Brunelli uses only a smidge of dairy, yet his salted cod is as smooth and rich as meringue.

Full disclosure: I don’t love liver. Partly because of its sharp, metallic tang and because my mom tried to smother poorquality cow offal with veggies and pretend it was steak when I was a child. (I hid the meat in a potted plant.) Veneto’s version is savory and strong, with a velvety mouthfeel.

It’s so buttery that I might’ve bought Mom’s bluff if she’d followed Brunelli’s recipe, especially with its beautifully charred exterior.

Or perhaps the three glasses of Italian vino that I’d imbibed during my visit made the dish seem more palatable. Either way, my dining companion described Veneto’s fegato as “the best liver he’d ever eaten.” Considering his mom owned a diner, that’s the verbal equivalent of a Yelp five-star review.

Veneto’s cuisine is lighter than one might expect. Don’t expect gobs of cheese and heartburn-inducing red sauce. This is Northern Italian food – Americanized Italian’s slimmer and more sophisticated cousin. Flaky, herb-crusted cod with a colorful side of fresh julienned veggies delights with its simplicity. Veal and ricotta ravioli proves flavorful and filling, while

squid ink tagliolini pasta in a cioppino-like broth showcases Veneto’s tiramisu is a must-try.

Brunelli’s delicate hand with seafood. The sauce is tangy and bright, yet light enough to allow the natural sweetness of scallops to shine through. Both the cod and squid ink pasta are informal, off-menu specials.

Dessert options include creamy panna cotta, affogato and classic tiramisu. Veneto’s tiramisu shames Boston cream pie with its creamy texture and chocolatey, custard-like flavor.

Its espresso finish was so light that even a non-coffee-drinker can barely detect it. It’s a musttry. Luckily, this signature dessert appears Remo Gerra, who migrated from Italy to the on Veneto’s 20th anniversary menu, a U.S. with his family in 1984. “They are also three-course feast offered Friday, October part of our extended family.” According to 13 through Saturday, October 21. For $20 per Gerra, some customers come in several times person, diners can celebrate the eatery’s big per week for their favorite dishes. That kind day with squid ink risotto, pork tenderloin of loyalty can’t be bought. It can only be or Venetian-style sausage pasta plus choice earned with quality, consistency, impeccable of appetizer and dessert. Reservations are service – and maybe a few well-placed glasses of Italian wine.  recommended.

While other restaurants and retail shops near Scottsdale Airpark have come and Veneto Trattoria gone, Veneto remains a neighborhood 6137 N. Scottsdale Rd., Scottsdale staple. “We know [our patrons] as more 480-948-9928, venetotrattoria.com than just customers,” says assistant manager

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hristopher Columbus, cover your ears! This Italian girl is going to tip her hat to the Greek Festival this month and a recipe that is the ultimate Greek comfort food: manestra! It’s a beautiful pot full of fall-off-the-bone short ribs and orzo pasta. In my Italian family, orzo was always used as the pastina of choice in our homemade chicken soup, so Greek manestra was entirely new to me. There is only one word to describe this hearty meal: Opa! It’s that lovely Greek word meaning to celebrate with exuberance, but the ingredients and flavors in manestra are pure soul-food/comfort food in any nationality. It starts with braised and slow-cooked short ribs that create a fantastic red sauce for the orzo to soak up in the pot.

It’s absolutely mouthwatering.

For this delectable discovery, I thank popular Valley musicians and recording artists Thano and Demitri Sahnas, known in Arizona as The Sahnas Brothers and Turning Point. Their mom, Kathy Sahnas, had a hidden treasure that had been passed down from generation to generation that is so simple and welcoming, I couldn’t wait to dish it up and then get it into your hands! Enjoy the great flavor of this Sahnas family favorite.

If you haven’t enjoyed the big Greek event celebrated in the Valley each year, hope you can make it to the Phoenix Greek Festival (phoenixgreekfestival.org) at the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, October 13-15. Also check out where the Sahnas Brothers are performing this month at theguitarbrothers.com. 

Ingredients: 1/8 cup olive oil 2 packages short ribs, bone in (approx 8-10 pieces or 3-3 ½ lbs) Salt and pepper 2 bunches mint, finely chopped with stems removed 1 large sweet yellow onion, chopped fine 6 small (8 oz.) cans tomato sauce 1/4 whole cinnamon stick (approx. 1 inch-long) 4 whole cloves 1 package orzo pasta (approx. 1 lb) 1 lemon, squeezed 1/2 cube butter, browned Chicken broth for thinning mixture, optional For the Dutch oven method: Directions: Generously sprinkle salt and pepper on both sides of short ribs.

In a hot skillet with olive oil, brown ribs. When browned, add mint and onion, cooking until onions are tender. Add tomato sauce, cinnamon and cloves. Simmer until meat is tender, about three hours. When done, remove meat and cut up or shred into bite-size pieces. Remove and discard cinnamon stick and cloves.

Add orzo to sauce, stirring often

to avoid sticking. Cook for about 25 minutes. Add lemon juice. Return meat to pot. In a small saucepan, cook butter until browned. Stir butter into orzo and meat mixture and serve.

Serve with a salad and feta cheese as a side. Yields approximately 6-8 servings.

Note: If the mixture becomes too thick, add chicken broth or water, a little at a time.

For the slow cooker method Directions: In a skillet, brown the seasoned short ribs in olive oil. Add onions and mint, cooking until onions are tender. Transfer ribs and onions to the slow cooker. Cover meat with tomato sauce, cloves and cinnamon.

Cook on high for about six hours or until ribs are tender. Remove meat.

Cut or shred into bite-size pieces. Add orzo to the sauce. Cook for about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the meat back to the cooked orzo.

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Nonprofit program creates pipeline of leaders for community impact

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cottsdale Leadership Inc., is pleased to announce participants in its 2017-18 Core Program. Now in its 32nd year, the program provides community leadership education for individuals committed to community service and civil dialogue.

Scottsdale Leadership and its alumni are consistently sought out to engage in grassroots initiatives and community conversations regarding the future and growth of our city. Alumni have had a significant impact on not only the city of Scottsdale, but throughout the Valley and the state of Arizona.

“Scottsdale Leadership continues to draw outstanding candidates for its Core Program, and class members are selected to represent a diverse group across many criteria,” says Margaret Leichtfuss, executive director.

Scottsdale Leadership is pleased to introduce Class 32: Elizabeth Apodaca, Physician Liaison, Mayo Clinic Scott Bartle, President, Outside the Box Marketing David Black, Banking Officer, FirstBank Lauren Burgoyne, Founder and President, The Greater Purpose Project & Inspired Mojo Media Taylor Buttrey, Creative Arts Manager, Scottsdale Training and Rehabilitation Services Erika Coombs, Director, Stifel Andrea Davis, Designated Broker, Andrea Davis CRE Brendan Denker, Sustainability Analyst, Salt River Project Alison Diaz-Mountford, Operations Manager, State Farm Amir Dorn, Principal, Real Estate Investor/ Entrepreneur Jeff Ertel, Strategic Advisor, Chapter 3 Nima Faghih, Regional Banking District Manager, Wells Fargo Bank Amy Ferrari, Director of Resident Services, Vi at Grayhawk Wes Frank, Division Manager, Vector Marketing/ Cutco Cutlery Christine Goodman, Director of IT, Nationwide Insurance Company Matthew Healy, English Instructor, Scottsdale Community College Don Henninger, Executive Director, SCOTT Lakisha Holley, Accounts Executive, Heasley & Partners Mary Jo Hopper, Director of Account Manage-

Scottsdale Leadership founders Gary Shapiro, Sam Campana, Don Ruff & Dr. Art DeCabooter

ment, American Traffic Solutions Robert Houston, E&S Operations Director, Nationwide E&S/S Insurance Company Mitchell Hundman, Vice President, Hundman Wealth Planning Jason Irvin, Director of Distribution & Logistics, Plexus Worldwide Dean Keltner, Commercial Account Executive, Wells Fargo Insurance Services Regina Kirklin, Enterprise and Financial Director, City of Scottsdale Robert LaMacchia, Financial Advisor, Clark & Associates Financial Services Laurie LaPat-Polasko, Principal, Ramboll Environ Todd Larson, Network Director Community Partnerships, HonorHealth Joe LeDuc, Commander, Scottsdale Police Department Theresa Lioce, Vice President, Private Bank, National Bank of Arizona Jennifer Maggiore, CEO, Red Balloon Social Media Rayner Matthews, Senior Consultant, Aetna, Inc. Scott Meyer, Realtor, RE/MAX Signature Beth Mitchell, Manager- Corporate Partnerships, American Express Trishanna Moeck, Senior Computer Systems Analyst, Salt River Project Witta Payackapan, Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley Michael Pearson, Marketing Manager, Neighborhood Outreach Access to Health (NOAH) Stephanie Pressler, Community Affairs Manager, Experience Scottsdale Marie Reed, Senior Consultant Business Program Management, Nationwide Lucy Roth, Retired, AIG

Michael Sheedy, Director of Risk Management, Salt River Materials Group Katie Smetana, Vice President-Operations, Valley of the Sun YMCA Bernadette Smith, Content & User Experience Strategist, Riester Scott Sowinski, Architect, Dekker/Perich/ Sabatini Monica Staats, Senior Management Analyst, City of Scottsdale Cheri Valentino-Fox, Vice President, Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce Lindsey Wallace, Director of Operations, Arizona Sun

The Core Program started Sept. 22 with a curriculum that includes economic vitality, community stewardship, education, human services and the arts. Each graduating class of Scottsdale Leadership provides an immediate positive impact on the Scottsdale community through its Lead It Forward project.

Since 1986, Scottsdale Leadership has graduated nearly 1,100 individuals who are prepared to take on leadership roles across our communities. Through powerful, transformative experiences during its leadership development programs, Scottsdale Leadership enhances the ability of leaders and creates engaged citizens who ensure a sustainable future for our community.

For more information, call Scottsdale Leadership at 480-627-6710 or visit scottsdaleleadership.org.  October 2017 Scottsdale Airpark News | 57

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5 high-priority estate planning situations

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Phoebe Moffatt, certified estate and trust specialist, Sacks Tierney P.A.

oo many people die without an estate plan, or without even a simple will. In the United States, where about 5.5 million people live with some form of dementia or Alzheimer’s, the majority of whom are over the age of 65, failure to plan can have grave consequences.

If you suffer a loss of mental capacity before your body fails you, who will be in charge of making financial decisions on your behalf, and who will decide whether and how you will live in an assisted living facility or receive in-home nursing?

Without an estate plan, state law governs who in your family has priority in making medical and financial decisions on your behalf in case of your incapacity, and at your death. So one of the primary reasons to plan your estate is to create accurate legal documents to ensure the individuals you pick will have priority over your medical and financial decisions when you are most vulnerable, and to provide for the orderly distribution of your assets according to your wishes at your death.

Most people avoid estate planning, perhaps because they don’t want to face their own mortality or incur the legal fees to create a legally valid estate plan. As an attorney who specializes in this area, I understand that – but if you are like one of the five types of individuals described below, I suggest you need estate planning.

1. You are in a second marriage

If you have children from a prior marriage and are lucky to fall in love again and remarry, you should consider estate planning.

Arizona is one of 11 states with community property laws. Without proper planning, at your death, your new spouse and your children will likely share in your assets and may disagree about which assets to which each is entitled. Or, at your incapacity, a fight may ensue over who has legal authority to make medical or financial decisions for you.

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If your intentions are not spelled out legally through proper planning, your new spouse and your children may end up with the burden and expense of litigation.

Thus, creating an estate plan is really a gift from you to your loved ones.

Other legal issues that often arise in blended families include whether your ex-spouse is entitled to receive an asset pursuant to a post-nuptial agreement, or whether your new spouse acquires a community property interest in the family business that you owned prior to marriage.

This is a complex area. Consulting with a legal professional qualified in estate/ trust law as well as community property is imperative to understand the strategy and options available to you. A legally valid estate plan helps avoid uncertainty.

2. You have a minor child or a child with special needs

In Arizona, a child under the age of 18 is not allowed to own property. So if you die unmarried (or if both married parents die together) and without an estate plan, your minor child could inherit your property at your death. However, the court would appoint a conservator to order how much of the inheritance can be used for the benefit of your child’s education, health and other needs.

Often, the expense of involving the court drains the child’s inheritance. After turning 18, or when the conservatorship terminates, your child would receive any remaining inheritance. Recalling what it was like when you were 18, perhaps you would decide delaying the age is a good idea.

If you are divorced, perhaps you would prefer your ex-spouse (the child’s parent) not be in charge of the way the inheritance is distributed to your minor child after your death. While you may not be able to take away custodianship of your child from the surviving parent, your estate plan can specify other individuals to control how your child receives his or

her inheritance after your death, and if 18 years old seems too young, you can specify another age at which your child receives the balance.

If you die leaving a child with special needs, the inheritance the child receives may cause your child to lose his or her governmental benefits. In these cases, proper estate planning is truly a gift to your child and should operate to avoid these problems.

3. You are single and worth over $5.49 million, or married and worth over $10.98 Million

Only about 11,300 Americans who die this year will leave estates large enough to require filing an estate tax return, and

legalperspectives only about 5,460 estates will owe estate tax.

About two-thirds of the tax-paying estates will be from the top 10 percent of income earners, with about one-fourth from the top 1 percent.

The estate tax exemption amount has increased, from $675,000 in 1997 to $5.49 million for 2017. If your net assets exceed $5.49 million, your beneficiaries could pay an estate tax of 40 percent for every dollar over that amount. Because of the unlimited marital deduction, the surviving spouse usually does not pay any estate tax; however, at the survivor’s death, an estate tax would be owed if the exemption of the first spouse to die is not used. This often happens when no election has been made to use the exemption of the first spouse to die.

In other words, for married people, it’s important to properly plan to use the available exemption of the first spouse to die, or the exemption can be lost at the death of the second spouse. It is especially important for individuals over the exemption limit to consult with qualified tax and legal professionals before undertaking any tax planning or estate planning strategies.

4. You are over age 70

Let’s face it: We are all one day closer to death. Your deadline for proper estate planning is your death or incapacity. An accurate and legally binding estate plan is the way to take control over your personal and financial affairs.

5. You have an outdated estate plan

Because laws, family dynamics, states of residence, and assets change over time, your estate plan should be reviewed every three years. If you happen to die with an estate plan that was poorly created, or that does not match your wishes, or is noncompliant with current laws, your estate plan fails when you need it most -- at your death or incapacity.

The point of having a solid estate plan is to clearly articulate your wishes when you are no longer able to communicate.

For example, if the title to an asset, such as your residence, is not in the name of your existing trust, did the plan accomplish your wishes to avoid probate? If any document in your plan is non-compliant with state law governing distribution, or federal law

regarding taxation, will the estate plan be enforced?

Without an estate plan, the law governs your legal affairs. At incapacity, if you want to control your personal and financial affairs, you should create a binding estate plan that clearly articulates your wishes. At death, a properly created enforceable estate plan becomes your gift and legacy to those you leave behind. Phoebe Moffatt is an attorney at Sacks Tierney P.A. in Scottsdale (480-425-2600). She is a certified estate and trust specialist (Arizona Board of Legal Specialization) and a Fellow of the American College of Estate & Trust Counsel.

“These materials are designed to provide general information prepared by professionals in regard to the subject matter covered.

Although prepared by professionals, these materials should not be utilized as a substitute for professional service in specific situations.

If legal advice or other expert assistance is required, the service of a professional should be sought.”

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Health care 3.0 is arriving

By Paul Breslau, Breslau Insurance & Benefits Inc.

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DoggMD, aka Dr. Zubin Damania, has the “amorphous concept” of a “utopian delusion” that “could happen in our lifetime.” ZDogg has named this Health Care 3.0: “This is a way of re-personalizing medicine and reconnecting health care givers and patients using technology to enable and enhance the connection on both a population level and on an individual level. This is a transcendent move that builds on the current and past medical systems.”

ZDogg’s presentation at the recent Banner/Aetna 2018 rollout at Talking Stick Resort was one of the most compelling and entertaining possible. Please take a minute to review his phenomenal website and watch some videos at zdoggmd.com.

Saving Us Now

ZDogg has the incongruous privilege of being a medical doctor and music bad-boy rapper. ZDogg is advocating for regional and national health care solutions. He is supporting the Arizona joint venture between Banner Health and Aetna which I have mentioned in past articles.This is one possible solution to the “addicted to medicine” phenomena, the topic of my September article. The big news for us in Scottsdale is that HonorHealth will be in-network. Your health insurance agent or broker should be evaluating joint venture options for your group health insurance.

Fourth Quarter Crunch Time

Due to the Affordable Care Act, the majority of employer-based health insurance renewals will be worked on in the fourth quarter for a December or January effective date. In addition to the Banner/ Aetna initiative, there are several pioneering Arizona alternatives that should be considered with your health agent. One of these is the EMI Industry Specific Pools coordinated by Arizona Benefit Plans.

UnitedHealthcare and Arizona Care

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Dr. Zubin Damania, aka ZDoggMD

Network have announced new 2018 options to improve benefits and provider access. Pairing EverydayCare options from Redirect Health in Scottsdale with level funding or indemnity coverage has worked for a dozen of my clients. Finally, level-funded group health is available from most health insurance companies and is now available down to two employees from National General Insurance.

Professional Help

The complexities of businesses dealing with health insurance, employee benefits, payroll, workers' compensation, 401k plans, and human resources increase each year. The daunting challenge is complicated by the many mergers and acquisitions of insurance agencies and payroll companies. The best account executives often change employers and are restricted in maintaining continuity of service due to non-compete clauses.

After nearly 25 years in the Arizona health insurance and benefits arena, I am refocusing my role. Now I will be matching

(Photo courtesy of zdoggmd.com)

the best agents and providers to business owners or their human resources staff. The best of the best agents and representatives often start their own agencies and businesses. Most have diversified experience in their area of expertise. For example, before starting my agency, I worked at Aetna, Samaritan Health Plan, and UnitedHealthcare in various roles. Please reach out to me to learn more about how to assemble a first-class team for your December or January health insurance renewal, as well as a review of 401k plans, workers' compensation, payroll, etc. The hard dollar savings combined with improved benefits and service will surprise you.  Paul Breslau, Registered Health Underwriter (RHU), Registered Employee Benefit Consultant (REBC), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC), Chartered Advisor for Senior Living (CASL), is President of Breslau Insurance & Benefits Inc. Contact: 602-692-6832; www.HRaz.com; Paul@HRaz.com.

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International airlines recently announced more nonstop flights to and from Phoenix Sky Harbor.

(Photos courtesy Experience Scottsdale)

Experience Scottsdale touts new Europe and U.K. flights Last year, Arizona welcomed nearly 128,000 visitors from Germany and 124,000 visitors from the United Kingdom, according to the Arizona Office of Tourism.

By Deanne Boynton Grupp, Vice President of Tourism, Experience Scottsdale

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lthough geopolitical tensions and the continuing strength of the U.S. dollar have put international tourism in flux, international travelers make up an important part of Scottsdale’s hospitality industry. Now more than ever, it’s essential to spread the message of Scottsdale’s warm weather and warm hospitality around the world.

With this in mind, Experience Scottsdale is touting new flights to and from Germany and the U.K. to show international leisure travelers they can journey to Scottsdale with ease.

In general, international travelers tend to stay longer and spend more money in the destination. Last year, Arizona welcomed nearly 128,000 visitors from Germany and 124,000 visitors from the United Kingdom, according to the Arizona Office of Tourism.

On average, Germans stayed more than five nights in Arizona and Brits stayed more than seven. Plus, international visitors favor Scottsdale during need periods in our tourism industry – including our summer months.

That’s why throughout the entire year,

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Experience Scottsdale promotes Scottsdale to travel agents both at home and abroad.

Last fiscal year, Experience Scottsdale trained more than 500 travel professionals to sell Scottsdale during 23 seminars in Canada, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom, the United States and emerging markets like Belgium and Switzerland.

Although we equip travel agents with the tools and knowledge they need to sell Scottsdale vacations, agents working with European clients can make an even more

convincing case for Scottsdale when travel to and from the city is made easy. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport estimates international flights add more than $3 billion to the local economy each year. And with increased air service, Phoenix and Scottsdale have even more opportunity to attract international visitors.

Condor Airlines recently announced it would launch nonstop service between Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and Frankfurt, Germany, in May 2018. The

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Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport estimates international flights add more than $3 billion to the local economy each year.

flights will operate on Mondays and Fridays from May through September.

Local tourism bureaus and destination marketing organizations saw the value in bringing this new Condor flight to Sky Harbor.

The Arizona Office of Tourism and Experience Scottsdale, along with other local destination marketing organizations from Phoenix, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert and Glendale, are supporting efforts to help Condor market its new flight.

British Airways already offers daily, nonstop service from London Heathrow Airport to Sky Harbor. According to Sky Harbor, this service alone injects $2.3 million into the Phoenix metro economy each day. Due to high demand, however, British Airways is adding another nonstop flight in 2018.

Beginning in the spring, British Airways will operate a second nonstop flight on Tuesdays, Fridays and Sundays. The flight will be offered through October.

That means both new flights will bring international visitors to the Scottsdale area during need periods for our tourism industry – months when domestic tourism tends to decline due to our triple-digit temperatures.

Beyond Sky Harbor, Experience Scottsdale also promotes international traveler services offered at Scottsdale Airport, one of the premier general aviation facilities in the country.

Scottsdale Airport has daily U.S. Customs service, giving visitors from all over the world the opportunity to fly directly into Scottsdale.

We hope to see more and more international visitors exploring Scottsdale. In addition to supporting new flights, Experience Scottsdale continues to educate travel professionals around the world on Scottsdale’s ample opportunities and welcome these important international travelers.  Deanne Boynton Grupp is the vice president of tourism for Experience Scottsdale, which is responsible for marketing the Scottsdale area as a premier travel and meetings destination to national and international leisure visitors, travel agents, tour operators and meeting planners.

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By Stephen A. Cross, CCIM

enewal options are unilateral provisions giving the tenant the right, but not the obligation, to extend the lease. As a tenant’s advocate, I consider this provision an essential element in a well-crafted lease agreement, principally because it provides tenants with flexibility – allowing them to commit to shorter term leases and, at a future date, decide whether or not to remain in the space.

In my experience, landlords are generally agreeable to granting renewal options and most will do so at no cost… but you have to ask for them during the initial lease negotiations. Here are some pointers on terms and conditions, some subtle, that should be addressed and included in every lease renewal provision.

Notice period: It is common for tenants to be required to provide written notice that the tenant intends to exercise a renewal option to the landlord six to nine months prior to the expiration date.

Careful, though -- if proper notice is not delivered within this window, the tenant will likely lose the right to renew the lease at any price. This has the effect of shifting negotiating leverage from the tenant to the landlord.

Who can give notice? Savvy tenants choose to be represented in all real estate transactions, including the exercise of any lease renewal options. Therefore, include language saying that proper notice can be delivered by the tenant or its authorized

representative – provided it is in writing and within the notice period window.

I suggest a letter signed by the tenant naming the authorized person accompany the notice.

Rental rate: Stating that the renewal rental rate will be the “market rate” is overly broad and invites needless future discord. A more reasoned approach would be to stipulate that the renewal rental rate will be a composite of terms and conditions being offered in comparable buildings in the general vicinity for like tenants, including commonly available leasing incentives. Leasing incentives are anything the tenant perceives as having value, and may include a contract rate below the asking rate, free rent, a moving allowance equivalent, tenant improvements, free covered parking and brokerage expenses, to name a few.

Other common methods include specifying predetermined increases, generally expressed as a percentage or amount, say, 95 percent of the rate being charged to other tenants for similarly improved space.

This amount becomes the ceiling on the initial renewal rental rate, but not necessarily the floor. To clarify, if there is a surplus of suitable space available on the renewal date, the tenant may insist on terms that reflect current market conditions.

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competing landlords. This will serve to objectively clarify market conditions and strengthen the tenant’s negotiating position by creating competition for its tenancy. Note: This should be accomplished prior to the beginning of the notice period.

Transferability: Specify that all renewal options be transferable to a sublessee or assignee of the lease.

Holdover penalties: Providing the landlord and tenant are conducting good faith negotiations, all holdover penalties should be waived in the event the final agreement has not been mutually executed by the lease expiration date.

Reset the Base Year or Expense Stop: Operating expenses (i.e., property taxes, casualty insurance, common area expenses, utilities and janitorial costs) generally increase over the years. Therefore, in “full service” or “gross” leases (where the operating expenses are included in the rental rate), remember to reset the landlord’s contribution to the first year of each renewal period.

Remove guarantees: If the tenant has made timely rental payments during the current lease period and is not in monetary default, it is reasonable to stipulate that any personal guarantees will be automatically removed.

In closing, treat renewal negotiations as you would a new lease. Use bona fide proposals received from other landlords as a guide to request rates, incentives and improvements (such as new flooring, paint, lighting upgrades, any needed repairs or modifications, and warranties) reasonably available elsewhere. And make certain to obtain additional renewal options.

Also, be mindful that your rent payments represent a revenue stream to the landlord. It is costly for landlords to replace a quality tenant and most do not want to face the prospect of an indeterminate period of vacancy (i.e., an interruption of revenue).

Therefore, recognize that you have significant leverage in negotiating favorable renewal terms.  Stephen A. Cross, CCIM, owns CROSS Commercial Realty Advisors and is a licensed real estate broker. Mr. Cross advocates exclusively for tenants and buyers and, since 1984, has advised over 2,700 business owners, attorneys, physicians, facility executives, investors and corporate decision-makers on ways to lease and purchase property at the lowest cost and most favorable terms.

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By Weiss Kelly, PMAFA Professional Member of the American Federation of Astrologers ARIES 3/21-4/20 October’s Full Moon on the 5th may require some compromise on your part when confronting a business matter; this may also relate to a significant personal relationship. The interests of others may have to be considered before you can accomplish your own goals.

On a positive note, social networking can open new doors. Pay attention to the new moon (28th), a time to reinvent yourself or launch an idea for professional growth. You can think about it, you can talk about it, but nothing happens until you act (do so on the 12th or 19th).

TAURUS 4/21-5/20 Some minor job issues may take priority over family matters as you start the month.

Wait until Jupiter enters Scorpio on the 10th and reorganize your plans. You can accomplish a lot more by alternating personal goals. The week starting on the 14th can be more productive – expect your daily routine to pick up pace. Pay a bit more attention to any health matters, as your work schedule could get demanding by mid-month. Earnings are increased along with some lingering debts.

GEMINI 5/21-6/21 You’ll feel more focused and motivated as career projects start moving ahead by the second week of the month. Any pending issues should be addressed by the first week, then you should move forward. The first half of the month supports marketing, sales, etc.

The last quarter brings some transportationrelated pressures. Circle the week of the 23rd as favorable for seeking opportunities.

CANCER 6/22-7/22 September’s hectic overflow may still have some lingering effects. People engaged with any kind of housing, food, or public services may experience some aftershocks of last month and a sense of urgency. You can take a break after the new moon on the 19th, providing you do that “clean up” by the 5th in matters concerning your work. Don’t allow any pressures allotted to your work ethics rattle you. Your financial situation improves rapidly in the month ahead.

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LEO 7/23-8/22 Last month’s disruptions had a purpose. The new moon (19th) emphasis is on relationships, both personal and professional. October is always more socially oriented. Attend those after-work functions or establish a better rapport with coworkers. Business and pleasure mix well.

VIRGO 8/23-9/22 September’s lineup of planets had you on the go, with more than your share of switching gears. Despite those multi-tasking details, you did accomplish a lot in little time. October’s main emphasis and the early full moon on the 5th highlights your financial status. Earnings, bills, debts, budgets, etc. require you to take from Peter to pay Paul. Underline the week of the 14th for scheduling appointments, arranging meetings and making presentations.

LIBRA 9/23-10/22 The Sun in your own sign until the 23rd gives you the confidence and motivation to follow through on your own plans. Take advantage of Jupiter (personal and work opportunities) until the 10th, allowing you some freedom.

Mars fires up your partnerships; you can pursue what and who you want. A major change of a planetary position starting on the 11th has a positive effect on your financial ability. During this period, your earning ability expands; so does some increase in prices for various products, services, etc.

SCORPIO 10/23-11/21 After a rough two years or so of having to stay put or being restricted, your perseverance will pay off by mid-month. A more opportune month has arrived as you find new ways of doing things. October’s early lesson is about consideration and compromise. Your personal and work landscape changes for the better.

Let it go, and get out of your own way. You finally get a break with Jupiter’s arrival on the 11th. All personal options are positive.

Underline the week of the 23rd.

SAGITTARIUS 11/22-12/21 Congratulations, you are about to advance to a higher position. Those last two years or so of applying patience or training is about to pay

off. Finish up any prior projects by the first two weeks of the month. The new moon on the 19th places importance on relationships and can put you in the right professional circle. Saturn, ready to reside in personal values and earning potentials next month, suggests you utilize the next few weeks to apply all that knowledge and insights you have gained.

CAPRICORN 12/22-1/19 October’s early influence urges you to enjoy a bit of pleasant interaction with fellow workers or professional associations. You’ll then have your share of responsibilities in the weeks ahead. Partnerships of all kinds hold extra importance and should take top priority once Jupiter enters Scorpio the week of the 17th. Keep updated with any changes related to your financial dealings, banks, mortgages, interests, etc. and plan accordingly.

AQUARIUS 1/20-2/18 You perform best when you associate with likeminded people, and that’s exactly where you may find yourself this month.

October’s full moon (5th) may be your last chance to finalize an agreement. Pending monetary obligations come to light and should not be ignored. Expect some good news following the new moon on the 19th. For some, new personal or business relationships are formed.

PISCES 2/19-3/20 October’s energies in comparison to last month’s compromising makes your life less tense, so get out of your space and join the festivities the local area offers early in the month. You can easily adjust to the unpredictable economic shifting that takes place the last quarter of the month. Wipe your financial swamp clean (circle the full moon on the 5th as a beginning) or pay debts on time and start a savings plan. A positive cycle of growth and sense of control begins, ending the month on a high note.  For a personal reading, contact weissastro@aol. com or weisskelly24@gmail.com.

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