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  • 3 weeks ago | phgmag.com | Robrt Pela

    Designer Joel Contreras honors the past with an updated home renovation. By Robrt L. Pela | Photography by Mark Lipczynski “I don’t believe in re-creating the past,” says designer Joel Contreras. He’s talking about the 1921 Craftsman bungalow in North Central Phoenix’s Los Olivos historic district , which he lovingly restored and where he and his family make their home. “But I do believe in paying homage,” he says.

  • 3 weeks ago | phgmag.com | Robrt Pela

    Al Beadle’s Forgotten Phoenix Office Now Hosts One of the City’s Most Inspiring Design Studios Architect Alfred Beadle’s former office is still home to design. By Robrt L. Pela | Photography by Scott Sandler The Green Room is mostly white.

  • 2 months ago | phgmag.com | Robrt Pela

    Peek Inside the Studio of one of the Valley’s Most Fascinating Architects Inside the studio (and mind) of celebrated Arizona architect Eddie Jones.

  • Mar 13, 2025 | phoenixmag.com | Robrt Pela

    The Cher Show is coming to the Mesa Arts Center, and I’ve been trying to talk myself into going. I’m not embarrassed to admit that I’m a great, big, giant Cher fan, but I’ve never loved watching actors portray famous people. I’m still recovering from seeing Tovah Feldshuh play Kate Hepburn in some cruddy TV movie in the late ’70s.

  • Mar 13, 2025 | phoenixmag.com | Robrt Pela

    Artist Heather Weller might have ended up a chef. “I was into baking in high school,” she recalls. “And I signed up for a culinary arts class, but it was full. Somehow I ended up in Intro to Art. Like Bob Ross says, it was a happy accident.”Weller, who teaches art at the same Phoenix high school she attended as a kid, somehow managed to miss lessons on perspective and shading skills. “I had to teach myself to paint,” she says of the large-scale oil paintings she makes.

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