Easter is just around the corner, which means lots of people will soon be opening baskets filled with Peeps marshmallow candies. A reconsideration of this much-maligned confection. Plus, a Valley sculptor reconnects with her late husband when his long-lost suitcase is discovered.
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Antoinette Cauley/HandoutWorking with a local nonprofit, Phoenix artist Antoinette Cauley painted a mural to celebrate women’s basketball. And she chose to highlight the talents of some younger players in the Valley. -
Jean Clare Sarmiento/KJZZAs you’ve probably noticed, the recent surge in temperatures in metro Phoenix and Arizona has brought an attendant surge of grasshoppers. -
Jacqueline Benard/HandoutJacqueline Benard and her husband, Kenji Umeda, moved to Phoenix in the mid-1970s. They’d met a few years earlier, studying sculpture in Carrara, Italy. The Valley became home to their family and creative lives until Umeda’s death in 2019. -
Michel Marizco/KJZZFamily members of migrants and forensic investigators who study migrant deaths are reeling in the wake of a puzzling outage at the Colibri Center for Human Rights. -
Tim Agne/KJZZAs Easter approaches, so too does the renewed debate about Peeps — the popular-yet-much-maligned marshmallow candy that some people love and others love to hate. -
Sky Schaudt/KJZZThere are a lot of efforts nationwide right now to reshape American elections. In Arizona, there are efforts at the state Legislature to get rid of the so-called “late early” ballots that folks drop off on Election Day in hopes of speeding up election results.
