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Features24 Coming Up OrchidsBy Elizabeth ExlineNature versus nurture—it’s a debate withbelievers on both sides, arguing fromparenting message boards and scientificjournals. But new studies are shedding light on the subject, revealing that, for the one in five children known as an ‘orchid child,’ it’s a whole lot of both.

32 The (Shared) OfficeBy Walt LockleyWhether looking for community or to escapethe 9-to-5 cubicle grind, a growing number ofprofessionals are trying coworking on for size.

38 Youthquake!By Si RobinsAll around the Valley, young entrepreneurs are taking a swing at business—their way. Here, meet some of Arizona’s mostsuccessful—and innovative—millennials.

On the Cover A new science suggests that genesthat can cause kids to self-destructcan, with the right parenting or inthe right environment, cause thosesame children to grow into someof the most creative and successfulpeople in society. Read about iton page 24.

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10 Luthier King The eclectic director of Phoenix’s well-regarded but little-known Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery works to spread the art of guitar making.By Karen Werner

18 Learn. Discuss. Repeat.Why Steve Goldstein was born for his public radio job.By Trisha Coffman

46 Gone Swimmin’Seven perfect places to plunge.By Peter Aleshire

54 Cool Summer To battle summer temps, we present icecream, gelato and smoothies. Because the Valley abounds in charming spots that serve comfort, cold.By RaeAnne Marsh

Featured Listener StoriesPages 16, 22, 44 and 53

Also Inside 4 Contributors6 Editor’s Note 60 KBAQ Programming Guide62 KJZZ Programming Guide64 Crossword

This student attends alocal school that attractsmusic buffs and craftsmenalike. What is it? Findout on page 10.

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Peter Aleshire

An award-winning writer and editor, Peter has

written eight books, including four history books,

three geology books and a book about training

F-16 pilots.

Morgan Benavidez

Morgan is a writer and editor based in Phoenix.

E-mail her at [email protected].

Trisha Coffman

Trisha works as a freelance features writer and

some time editor. She has contributed widely

to local magazines, and these days writes

mainly about business and science for Web

and print publications.

Elizabeth Exline

Elizabeth is a freelance writer who frequently

covers design and architecture. Her work has

appeared in Robb Report, Estates West and

Travel Savvy, among other publications.

Kristen Forbes

Kristen is a freelance writer living outside

Portland, Oregon. To view her blog, visit

krissymick.blogspot.com.

Daniel Friedman

Over the years, Dan has worked as a photojournalist

at a daily newspaper, a commercial photographer,

and an elementary and middle school teacher.

He’s now a writer and photographer for Raising

Arizona Kids magazine.

Art Holeman

A commercial photographer for 30 years,

Art has garnered national awards, including

appearances in Communication Arts, Applied

Arts and Graphis. To see more of his work, visit

artholeman.com.

Production of Wavelength is underwritten by Friends of Public RadioArizona (FPRAZ), 2323 W. 14th Street, Tempe, AZ 85281

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Contributors

Fred Jarmuz

On any given day, Fred is busy with all

the C’s in his life: cycling, crosswords,

computers and his wife Christine.

Although not necessarily in that order.

Yvette Johnson

Yvette is a freelance writer. She lives in

Phoenix with her husband and their

two rambunctious sons.

Walt Lockley

Walt was born in Texas and educated

in the back seat of a 1972 Buick Riviera

crisscrossing the continent. His work

on disappearing mid-century modern

architecture in Phoenix is at

waltlockley.com.

RaeAnne Marsh

RaeAnne’s byline appears over articles

on subjects as varied as business, decor

and life in Arizona. She is the proprietor

of Grammar & Glitz.

Emily Piraino

From the moment she lifted her first

camera, Emily knew she wanted to

spend her life documenting the world

through a lens. She lives for the thrill

of preserving in print the way the

human spirit thrives.

Si Robins

Si is the editor of Downtown Phoenix

Journal and a family of green living

Web sites. You can find him riding his

bike throughout downtown Phoenix,

and drinking too much espresso at

local coffee shops. Drop Si a line at

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They (Don’t) Call Me Bruce

stare into the eyes of a kung fu black belt, as he calmly leads me through a sequence ofmoves designed to quell an attack. “Break the bones of the feet. Smash the kneecap. Strikethe face, then the gut,” he explains.

How’d Wavelength land me here?Like so many other adventures, this one was inspired by something I heard on KJZZ—in

this case, Kai Ryssdal talking to Jane Berentson, the editor of Inc. magazine. Berentson wastalking about the April issue, which extolled the virtues of the virtual office. As an experiment,Inc.’s entire staff took to their sofas and kitchen tables to produce an issue from home. WhatMax Chafkin, the writer of the story, found was that the work he did wasn’t all that different,

but his life certainly was. As a home-based employee, he worked more hours and was less happywithout his office compadres.

Maybe that’s why coworking has gone from quirky concept to full-blown movement in lessthan a decade. Morning Edition featured a segment about it a few months back, and it was theinspiration for Walt Lockley to examine the phenomenon locally. You’ll find his story on page 32.

As for me, I’ve been a home worker for years, nestling into bed with my laptop and churningout copy in the middle of the night. So both Lockley’s and Chafkin’s words literally struck closeto home. Because, for me, the line between business and life hasn’t just blurred, it’s vanished. Ijot down story ideas during dinner, call writers while I sort laundry, and mull over headlineswhile I play Candyland with my son.

So it’s not surprising that I find coworking intriguing. It’s also not too surprising that when Iwas searching for something to clear my head, I looked to the pages of this magazine. In it, SiRobins’ story about the local “Youthquake” (page 38) made me think I’ve gotten the equationwrong. The successful millennials Robins’ profiled aren’t sacrificing their lives for their work;they’re making their work adapt to their lives in inspirational ways. The story concludes with a sidebar of recommendations these folks have for the coolest things in the Valley, and one ofthem caught my eye: a kung fu center in Tempe that the wildly talented cartoonist Tony Carrillosays offers a great respite from the grind.

Since he’s no stranger to deadlines, either, I decide to heed his advice. And I find myself on a recent Saturday kicking, punching, stretching and meditating with a roomful of people muchbetter at it all than I. Jacob Rydberg, the owner of the Chinese Shaolin Center, is friendly andencouraging, and he chats a lot in class, probably to try to keep us from analyzing the improbablefeats we’re trying to master.

“Do the Zhan breath—the Zen breath,” he says. “It’s pronounced like John. I listen to NPRand a couple of the reporters have really good Chinese pronunciation. They say things so correctly,I’m like, ‘What did he say?’”

Then I realize, work and life have converged again. An NPR story led me to assign a piece,which uncovered a problem, which aided by another story, introduced me to a man, whorecommended a place, where I found a community that felt like home.

So not only were my mind and body refreshed, but I also came away with a renewed desireto get back to that home office and put out a magazine to help public radio fans make their owninspirational connections.

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Karen Werner

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By Karen WernerPhotography by Art Holeman


Loud noises emanate from asmall, somewhat ramshacklebuilding in South Phoenix.

Inside, young people in hoodiesand flannels hover over work -benches, gluing and sanding, whileband saws and belt sanders whinearound them. They’re in their 20’smostly, except for a couple of olderguys. And they’re all men, save forone green-haired girl.

This could be any shop classanywhere, except these studentsare making finely crafted guitars.

Welcome to the Roberto-VennSchool of Luthiery, which has beenteaching students the art of guitarbuilding and repair for more than35 years. People have come fromall over the world—from everycontinent except Antarctica—tobuild the acoustic guitar and electricguitar required to graduate fromthe five-month program. Thirty-two students are enrolled today.

Still, few in Phoenix are familiarwith the school, or know what’sproduced on the three-acre site,with its small milling operation andcollection of sheds. But for musicians,it’s a destination. Nils Lofgren, theguitarist in Springsteen’s E StreetBand, recently stopped by and wasso impressed, he commissioned acustom electric harp guitar.

Today, the students are workingon the fretting process, watchingFrank Ford, from Gryphon StringedInstruments in Palo Alto, California,do a refret. After graduation, they’llbe able to customize instruments,amplify acoustic guitars and doroutine maintenance and repairs.They’ll also be able to build stringedinstruments that are “an artistic

expression of themselves,” saysWilliam Eaton, the director ofRoberto-Venn.

He should know.Eaton is the dynamic visionary

behind the school, a Nebraskanwho came to Arizona in 1969 afterwinning a pole vaulting scholar shipto ASU. A man of many interests,he’d been playing stringed instru -ments since his uncle gave him aukulele at 7 and taught him toplay “Has Anyone Seen My Gal?”in one night.

Years later, living the studentlife in Tempe, Eaton was thinkingabout buying a guitar. Then achance encounter changed his life.“This guy was going door to doortrying to sell his guitar,” says Eaton.“He said he’d made it at Juan RobertoGuitar Works.” Eaton consideredbuying that guitar but decidedinstead to visit Juan Roberto him -self, to see if they had others to sell.

“I’ll never forget walking inthat first day,” Eaton says of thebig Quonset hut on WashingtonStreet. “The first thing I noticedwas the scent of rosewood—a veryunique and aromatic smell. Therewere guitar parts hanging on thewall and sawdust here and there.It made a real impression on me.”

Eaton looked at the guitars,but John Roberts, the owner,encouraged him to learn how to make one himself.

Thus began Eaton’s apprentice -ship with Roberts, the colorfulfounder of Juan Roberto. A pilotwho flew planes for a wood importcompany, Roberts had befriendedthe Miskito Indians in theNicaraguan jungles and, with their

Luthier KingWilliam Eaton, the eclectic director of Phoenix’s well-regarded but little-known Roberto-Venn School ofLuthiery, works to spread the art of guitar making.

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help, shipped a lifetime supply of rosewood, mahogany and othertropical hardwoods to Phoenix,where he began his guitar-making business, even thoughhe could only play one chord.

It was just the sort of outletthe 19-year-old Eaton craved. “It took me about four monthsto build a guitar,” he says. “I re -member being completely elated.”

Fast-forward a few years, after Eaton had earned the title“Outstanding Graduate” fromASU’s business college. He wasworking toward his MBA atStan ford when he bolted up in the middle of the night. “Ihad this dream about making a second instrument,” he says, “a 12-string with some uniqueideas about it.” Eaton calledRoberts the next day to ask if hecould come to Phoenix over histhree-week break to build it.

What he built, it turned out, was much more.

Over the same break, Eatonhad an assignment to write abusi ness plan in one of hisclasses. So he composed a 60-page plan for a guitar-makingschool. As grad uation neared,Eaton interviewed with largecompanies, but nothing fit.Having written the plan, heknew the guitar-making venturewouldn’t be lucrative, he says,“but it would be really fun todo.” So, Eaton’s class projectbecame the blueprint for theRoberto-Venn School of Luthiery,which Eaton, Roberts, Bob Vennand Bruce Scotten incorporatedand founded in 1975. (RobertVenn—part of the school’s epony -mous name—had teamed withRoberts in 1973, bringing customelectric guitar making to the mix.)

As for what Eaton brought,the answer is quite a bit, and notall of it from a university. Afterstarting Roberto-Venn, Eaton took

symbiosis in every culture.”It’s that anthropological take

that lets Eaton conjure the sub -tleties of each instrument. He’sknown for creating incrediblyinnovative, almost otherworldlyguitars, with unique shapes andtonal possibilities. There’s hiskoto harp guitar—a birch beautyhe built back in the 70’s—withits 20 crossing strings, octaverange and Asian sound. There’salso a newer creation, the doubleneck harp guitar, one of the world’smost sophisticated guitars. Com -plete with an onboard computerthat memorizes positions for sixstep motors, it essentially givesEaton the ability to play twoguitars at once. “I can instan -taneously change the modulation,the key signature or the tuningto get different chord voicingson the electric neck,” he says.“Then I can play synthesizersample sounds or acoustic tonesfrom the acoustic neck, which isoutfitted with RMC midi piezo

to the desert, sleeping under thestars and living out of his car fortwo years. He read voraciously,exploring the spirituality andphilosophies of various culturesand thinking about the begin -nings of music.

“You get interested in the originsof things and it takes you back to the hunter’s singing bow, andeven the shaman’s bow,” Eatonexplains. “Hunters and gathererswould be dependent on finding aspecies in their local environ mentto survive. If they were fortunateenough to capture one, they’d useevery part of that animal—theskins for clothing, the bones fortools, the gut and tendons fortwine. So that’s the origin of strings.And the trans lation was, ‘Here’sthis live creature that has providedsustenance for your tribe. Whenyou pluck the string, the voiceand spirit of the animal live on inthe presence of this bow.’ That’sthe unifying loop. It’s a predom -inant theme of reverence and


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graduate became a wood hunterfor Taylor Guitars. He flies to Indiaand Africa and all over the world,looking for good wood. Othergraduates have gone on to becomerepair techs, traveling the countrywith bands like Metallica.

Joe Vallee graduated from theschool in 1981 and ran a repairshop in Tucson for 10 years. Today,he does tech work for the DoobieBrothers and teaches at Roberto-Venn when he’s not on the road.With decades of history with theschool, he works to keep itstraditions alive. “It’s still fun here,”he says. “It’s the same kind ofplace—25 years later, same kind of vibe.”

Much of the vibe comes fromembracing the student’s wildestinstrument-building dreams. Afterall, with Eaton as director, howcould they not? Nicole Taylorwants to build electric orchestralinstruments and worked withEaton to compile plans for anelectric viola. She appreciates thedifferent mindset he brings to the school. “Some of the otherinstructors are heavily influencedby rock ‘n’ roll,” she says. “He reallyshows how versatile stringedinstruments are and how widelyappreciated they are by othercultures and times.”

But it’s not just building instru -ments at which Eaton excels. Herecords and performs originalcompositions as a soloist and withensembles. His most well-knownwork is done with his friend andlongtime collaborator R. CarlosNakai, the Native American flutist.In fact, three of their recordingshave been nominated for Grammys.

Whether Eaton is playing on a CD, in a concert or at a localcorporate event, he only playsinstruments he’s built. “That’s notbecause I don’t like others,” hesays. “It’s because I already haveenough of them. It’s like my otherinstruments say, ‘Wait a minute!Why am I not getting played?’”

When he’s not recording, per -forming, building instruments orrunning the school, Eaton managesa couple of other endeavors, too.

pickups. So I can make this necksound like a piano, drums, banjo,flutes, violins—you name it.”

Eaton contends that hand -made instruments—even verysimple ones, like a harp hefashioned from a mesquitewalking stick—have their ownpersonalities. “They possessunique characteristics that areindividual to that instrument.The timbre, tone and othersounds are quite diverse. They’realmost like children,” he says.

So Eaton relishes teachingothers the process and launchingthem on their careers as artisans.Nicole Taylor is a 24-year-oldwho studied viola performance atthe University of Kansas. Insteadof doing a graduate program inmusic, she decided to studylutherie. “I thought about violinbuilding, but then I saw this pro gram,” she says. “I liked howsuccinct it was and how wellconnected the instructors seemed to be.”

Taylor also appreciates thedualities of Roberto-Venn. How,for instance, it focuses on boththe sound and the beauty ofguitars. “It’s a wonderful intro -duction to a specific type ofcraftsmanship that people don’tconsider to be as artful as it is,”she says. Taylor also likes how it’sboth a casual and a serious place.“It’s a really laid-back, free-feelingprogram, but at the same time you’reexpected to step up and do thebest work you can and show thatyou’re there for a reason,” she says.

Today, Taylor works at Wood - songs Lutherie in Boulder, Colorado,doing guitar repairs and takingon a lot of the orches tral workthat passes through the shop. Shealso made it into the LongmontSymphony Orches tra, so she has “the best of both worlds,” she says.

Other Roberto-Venn graduateswork in different areas of the musicworld. A Korean graduate that livesin Tempe started Uno Guitars. Hedesigns instruments, has thembuilt in Korea, then ships themback to the States to sell. Another

During 880 hours of class time, Roberto-Vennstudents attend lectures and demonstrationson every phase of guitar building and buildtwo guitars themselves.


He and his wife Christine own theOld Town Center for the Arts inCottonwood, an arts venue andconcert space. “It’s kind of comingfull circle for me,” Eaton says,“because I helped produce showswhen I was at Stanford with myfriend Danny Scher, who went onto work for Bill Graham. Dannyand I wrote a business plan onputting together a productioncompany. So when I left school Iwas debating, should I do that orthe guitar-making school? Thefunny thing about it all is thecoming full circle. But my life has kind of been that way. And I think it’s true with everybody, if you’re paying attention.”

Oh, and Eaton also is gettingback to his roots as a pole vaulter,coaching at his son Walker’s highschool. His goal is to jump at least13 feet himself, and he works onhis strength by doing handstandpushups. He doesn’t see his age asas much of an obstacle as mindset,since with pole vaulting, “yourlimitations are partly your abilityto envision.”

With his school, too, as Eatonstrives to move it from the schoolof his youth into the future so itcontinues to thrive. Roberto-Vennwill be leaving its rustic school -house this fall in favor of a newbuilding on 10th Avenue andGrand, though they’ll keep the16th Street property for millingoperations. Eaton says it hadgotten to the point that the staffwas always apologizing for theschool. “We put in our literaturethings like ‘Old World charm’ or‘rustic,’ to try to give it a spin,” he

Recordings:• Carry the Gift• Tracks We Leave• Wisdom Tree• Ancestral Voices• Where Rivers Meet• Naked in Eureka• Sparks and Embers• Dancing Into Silence

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says. “But I was always concernedthat if people visited the placewithout anybody being here, theymight say, ‘Oh, I don’t know if I want to go there.’”

So the staff is doing an adap tivereuse and renovating another oldbuilding, in keeping with Eaton’sadherence to green build ingprinci ples. The hope is to expandRoberto-Venn’s curriculum, andalso offer hobbyists a place to buildtheir own guitar, just like in theold days of Juan-Roberto GuitarWorks. “Guess we’ll come fullcircle again,” Eaton says.

Hopefully, the new setting willattract a fresh crop of studentseager to push boundaries in thecraftsmanship of music. “We pro -vide a service and education, andmy dream is to see that continuelong after I’m gone,” Eaton says. “Tome, one of the defining things abouta school like this is that you canhave a small company that makesa difference in people’s lives. Wehave over 2,000 graduates in allrelated guitar fields. As bare bonesand rough as this place is, we’rereally proud of the guitars andluthiers that are born here.”

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listener profile

By Kristen Forbes

“It’s my favorite source for news andinformation,” she says of KJZZ. “I love theway the commentators speak and articulatethings. I love the points they make and thein-depth discussions they have.”

Cully, who sings publicly but playsinstruments mainly in private, becameparticularly interested in Paul O’Dette, anAmerican lutenist and conductor, afterlistening to KBAQ. She’s played guitar foryears and when she heard his songs, shewas intrigued by how much his Renaissancemusic sounded like a guitar. When shelearned he was playing the lute, she quicklyadded lute music to her Christmas list.

Cully listens to KJZZ and KBAQ whiledoing chores and running errands in thecar, but it’s the weekends that really definethe role public radio plays in her life. EverySunday evening, while making a big familymeal, she tunes in to her favorites.

“This is my private time,” she says. “Noone gets to talk to me when I’m makingthe big Sunday dinner. It’s when I listen to the shows I love.”

Cully is such an avid fan, she beganvolunteering at the stations to help withpledge drives once both of her kids wereold enough to attend school. The experienceis one she’d like to share with other moms.

“I’m hoping more moms will realizethey can help with the pledge drives,” she says. “It’s only a few times a year. I’mable to sew on my daughter’s Girl Scoutpatches while I do it, and it’s really fun to get to know the other volunteers. I feellike I’m part of something very importantand special.”

HHillary Cully is a stay-at-home mom whosebiggest daily obstacle is boredom. To combatthis, she turns to what has inspired andentertained her for more than half her life:public radio.

“When I’m doing something mindless likelaundry,” Cully says, “it enriches my life tohear the intelligent commentary and music.”

A native Californian with music in herblood (her mom is an opera singer), Cullyand her husband have been living inArizona for seven years. They have adaughter—who loves classical music andpassionately practices the flute and piano—and a son, who Cully says is more her“shotgun piano player.”

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inside the station

By Trisha Coffman

Learn. Discuss. Repeat.Why Steve Goldstein was born for his public radio job.

It’s tough being interviewedwhen you’re usually the oneposing the questions. But this

time Steve Goldstein takes histurn on the other side. Except for a few lapses, the All ThingsConsidered anchor and host ofHere and Now answers instead of asks, temporarily squelchinghis inquisitive instincts.

Quick: Think of the top threereasons you listen to public radio.Maybe it’s to get informed or for asense of community connection.Perhaps you listen simply to be entertained.

Tuning in offers all of that, butfor a certain boy growing up inArizona in the 70’s—falling asleepto Al McCoy announcing Suns

games on KTAR—radio was asource of fascination as much asinformation. He listened with asense of wonderment at the for matof half-hour news programs,marveling at the nutshell parsingof news, sports and weather like akid compulsively picking apart acalculator to examine its pieces.

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coolest thing.”Goldstein and his listeners

have that much in common:“Learning is a big word for me,”Goldstein says. He’s deep intothree books at the moment: a galley copy of Play by Play,about the Herberger Theater; abiography of the 1975 CincinnatiReds; and a Sherlock Holmesmystery. He sees a learningopportunity in just about everyconversation—more than anything,he wants to get at the intricaciesof how other people think.

“He always wants to knowmore,” is how Here and Now’sproducer, Paul Atkinson, sumsup Goldstein’s appetite for knowl -edge. “He does his own researchand comes prepared for everyinterview. He also has passionfor the topics we cover on Hereand Now. He loves Arizonahistory, particularly the politicalcharacters our state has produced.He knows things about local, stateand federal politics that fewreporters would take the time to learn.”

In fact, Goldstein is such apolitics hound that he worriesthe show can skew too political.“I just love talking with politicians.I kind of get giddy,” he says. “Wehad J.D. Hayworth on, who I’msure 90 percent of our listeners

hate, but he’s a great guest. He’s a really good communicator.What we do—this is so radio—isfind people, whether listenersagree with them or not, who canget their message across. Youhope it’s not too calculated amessage. You have to find thebest advocate for a particularpoint of view, but it has to besomeone who can articulate it.”

Goldstein names Jon Kyl andJanet Napolitano as favoriteguests because, “whatever you askthem, they’re not afraid to answerthe question. They’re both smart,confident people who are alwaysready to defend what they did.They say, ‘I appre ciate the fact thatyou disagree with me, but here’swhy I did what I did.’” That’s hisaim for the show: interesting,always meaty, conversationwithout too much emphasis on“horse race” coverage or excesspunditry. Goldstein has tried to train his eye on big-pictureprofessionalism, not personal-

old I was listening to talk radio. Iused to love that stuff. I didn’tlisten to music,” the now grown-up and public-radio employedSteve Goldstein says. “I felt like I wanted to learn as much as Icould. I always wanted to be thefirst to tell people this guy gotelected or that guy got traded.”

He was reading local papers“as a tiny kid—pre-10 years old,”as well as Time magazine andSports Illustrated, studying formas well as content. “They hadthese long features and I thought,wow, you can really tell storieslike this! I always knew I wantedto grow up to be in some sort ofmedia thing.”

So, yes, Goldstein is position -ed in that enviable spot whereoccupation and defining passionmeet. But he appreciates that hisjob isn't about his own interestsand has found it a joy and a respon -sibility to bring news and analysisto a metropolitan area of educated,aware and sometimes toughlisteners. “Once you get past thepoint of, Hey, I’m on the radioand I get to talk to people, thenyou really want to make animpact,” he says.

That’s where Here and Nowcomes in. Currently airing onWednesdays and Fridays,Goldstein says the goal is to goto five days a week starting laterthis year. “The talk show is howyou can attract that communityconnection,” he says. “A four-minute report on John McCainis great, but as a listener I can’tcall in, I can’t text. So I love theinteractivity of Here and Now.Plus, it’s always cool to see whata wide variety of people call in.They’re so well educated, andthey want to learn. That’s the

“Once you get past the point of,Hey, I’m on the radio and I get totalk to people, then you reallywant to make an impact.”

Steve Goldstein and hiswife, Deanne Poulos,

enjoy one of Goldstein’sabiding passions:

baseball. Here, they’re ata Diamondbacks game,though Goldstein’s team

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Conversation Tips From a Pro By Steve Goldstein

The key to starting any goodcon versation is making sure you’repre pared to listen.

Sometimes listening can feel likequite an effort … but to paraphrasethe old saying: We have two earsand one mouth for a reason.

If you’re attending an eventthat’s bringing together people witha common interest, you’ll have aclear entrée. Make eye contact andask the person next to you how longshe’s been interested in protectinganimals, global warming, writing anovel or learning a new language.I’ve never been a fan of asking some -one what he does for a living. We’renot defined as human beings by ourprofessions. And the reality of ourcurrent economic times can makethat an awkward question that leadsto an uncomfortable answer.

A good question asked by agenuinely interested conversationalistcan relax all involved and spark newinterests and ideas—perhaps newfriendships, too. But like most dances,satisfying conversations need twointerested participants. So, don’t beafraid to have expectations. If youfeel cornered by never-ending stories,feel free to gracefully interrupt andsay you need to move on. That maybe just the step you need to stroll into amore mutually satisfying exchange.

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agenda pushing. “As a host you have to take yourself out of, what do I think of this particular issue, and say,‘Are you getting your pointacross? Are we having a goodexchange and are listeners get -ting value from this?’” he says.

Goldstein has had help fine-tuning his journalistic knack forimpartiality from his wife, DeannePoulos, whom he married lastyear. “She’s the most open-mindedperson I’ve met in my entirelife,” Goldstein says. “She’s intocheering great plays on bothsides. I’ve tried to be more andmore like that. We all have certain

opinions about things. I feel likeI’ve tried to evolve from that.”

When it comes to obsessions,Goldstein doesn’t limit himselfto one. “I’m kind of obsessedwith bread,” he says, namingfavorites like kalamata olivebread, Texas toast, challah andzucchini bread. He’s also anardent gym-goer and avowedsports nut who attends Sunsgames and says he’s still “kind ofobsessive” about the CincinnatiReds. Then there’s that stack of books, often about Arizonapolitical history, because so-called relaxing for Goldsteindoesn’t mean getting distance

“I always have mynerdy reporter’snotebook.”

TOP: Goldstein enjoys a hikeat Spur Cross Ranch, an areanear Cave Creek. BOTTOM:Goldstein (on the left) joinsthree college friends at aChicago Bears game onSoldier Field. Game-timetemperature was 20 degrees.

from what might make a goodnews story or an intriguing topicfor the shows. “I always have mynerdy reporter’s notebook,” he says,clearly still equipped with thatboyish fascination.


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listener profile

By Morgan Benavidez

globe. Since algae requires no soil, fossil fuelsor fresh water to flourish, and grows justabout anywhere at an incredible rate, it is the epitome of sustainability and provides an invaluable source of both food and fuel. “I get to share my passion in my talks,”Edwards says. “Most people aren’t aware ofhow valuable algae is to our world and thepotential it has for solving world hunger.”

In 2009, his book, Green Algae Strategy:End Oil Imports and Engineer SustainableFood and Fuels, won an IndependentPublisher Book Awards gold medal for topscience book of the year. Currently, he is fine-tuning a new concept called “abundantagriculture,” which is food production free of fossil resources. “Our current food supplyis jeopardized because it requires so muchfertile soil, fresh water and fossil fuel,” saysEdwards. “At current consumption rates,phosphorus fertilizer will run out within 30 years and our food supply will collapse.”

His solution for this? Recover and reusephosphorus in a project called “ZooPoo.”

As the name suggests, ZooPoo involvesrecycling zoo waste through a process called“algaculture” and using the recovered nutrientsto create animal food, fertilizer and fuel,without wasting precious fossil resources.

Edwards, who has been interviewed onNPR several times, says he listens to DianeRehm nearly every morning and especiallyloves the way NPR catalyzes storytelling.

“We’ve lost the art of storytelling becausemost people watch TV instead of listening to radio,” Edwards says. “I think NPR does a wonderful job of allowing people to tell their stories. Often we can hear the passion in their voices, which is more valuable to me than the words.”

FFor many people, algae is just a pesky fact oflife. Homeowners pour countless dollars intoscouring it from their pools. But for ASUprofessor and KJZZ listener Mark Edwards,algae is a precious commodity with earth-saving potential.

Edwards learned about algae firsthandwhile attending the U.S. Naval Academy inAnnapolis. “My job was to kill algae off thebottom of boats, but of course I failedbecause it grows so fast,” he says.

These days, in addition to teaching at the Morrison School of Management andAgribusiness and working as a consultanthelping businesses become more sustainable,Edwards sings algae’s praises all over the

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Algae Whiz KJZZ listener has a passion for pond scum.

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Mark Edwards says he findsDiane Rehm’s way of askingquestions “very inspiring,”especially in how it helpsprompt conversation. “I findanecdotes fascinating,” he says.


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Nature versus nurture—it’s a debate with believers on both sides,

arguing from parenting message boards and scientific journals. But

new studies are shedding light on the subject, revealing that, for the

one in five children known as an ‘orchid child,’ it’s a whole lot of both.

Coming Up OrchidsBy Elizabeth Exline


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at the University of Arizona—he studies children’s biological development in the

context of their families and relationships—and his work has led him deep within

the realm of orchid children. In his lab, he explains, he’ll hook up children to a cardiac

monitor that can read their stress responses. Then he’ll present them with frustrating

situations, like a puzzle they can’t solve or hot cocoa whose steam triggers a smoke

alarm. “Some kids are very psycho-biologically responsive to challenges in their envi -

ronment,” Ellis says. “And when they can’t solve that puzzle, or they see an emotionally

arousing videotape, or they hear a loud noise, you get a lot of physiological reactivity

happening. And some kids are quite flat.”

The reactive kids, of course, are the ones Ellis is interested in. (Their unflappable

counterparts are dubbed “dandelions.” The name is borrowed from the Swedish

expression maskrosbarn, or “dandelion child,” which refers to a typical, resilient kid

who can thrive in almost any environment.) The top quartile of these sensitive

children, Ellis says, can be considered orchid children, and their relationship to their

Greenhouse KidsIt is common, says University of Arizona professor BruceJ. Ellis, Ph.D., for families to have children with varyingdegrees of biological sensitivity to their environ ments.Evolutionarily speaking, this would make sense. (If the parents are ideal for dandelions and terrible fororchids, at least some will thrive.) But figuring outwhether you have an orchid on your hands is still alargely intuitive process, says Dr. W. Thomas Boyce, apediatrician and researcher at the University of BritishColumbia. “I think when they start hearing about orreading about this set of characteristics,” Boyce explains,“for parents who have one, there’s an instant recognitionthat happens. They sort of intuitively see that there arethese kids that seem to have greater predispositions and sensitivities than other kids.”

At this point, there are no known differences be -tween orchid girls and boys, and heredity plays as much a role as environment when it comes to developingorchid traits. (The amount of stress a pregnant womanexperiences does also impact the chances of having an orchid child.)

So what do orchid children need to thrive? For starters,says Boyce, they do well in families that exhibit “a lot ofsupportive emotional interaction,” or where parents arenurturing toward their children. Routines and good com -munication are also key. And the ideal school environmentwould have a low student-to-teacher ratio with teacherswho know how to dispel the bullying hierarchy that per -meates many classrooms. There’s no accepted formulafor success yet—the science is still too new—but demon -strating the same sort of sensitivity toward orchidchildren that they experience themselves seems to bechief among the proverbial ideal greenhouse conditions.

DDusk is falling one Sunday evening as my husband, our 4-year-old daughter, Isabelle,

and I enter a popular Scottsdale pizzeria to celebrate the birthday of my husband’s

cousin. It’s crowded, and our party of nearly 20 has to wait while the staff arranges

the necessary tables. Instinctively I begin to “protect” Isabelle, physically shielding

her from the onslaught of well-intentioned relatives, and helping her to answer the

countless questions shot her way. It’s my method of slowing down the stimuli, of

buying time before Isabelle gets completely overwhelmed.

Our tables, it turns out, share a room with a large group of chatty girls who seem

to be celebrating something themselves. As soon as our party gets settled, the room

sounds like an aviary with about a hundred birds squawking their conversations.

Before the night is over—and for us, it comes early—Isabelle has succumbed to

several tantrums. She’s sobbing as we clamber into the car.

This could be nothing. It could be something that Isabelle outgrows. It could be

that she is simply high-strung. But as I listen to Bruce J. Ellis, Ph.D., discuss his research,

I can’t help but flash back to episode after episode like this where disrupted routines

or overcrowded places spark full-scale upsets. It accords with the “orchid child” theory,

a hypothesis born in 2005 that is now, thanks to ongoing research, being discussed in

both scientific circles and the mainstream media. (The Atlantic ran an in-depth article

on the subject in its December 2009 issue.) Orchid children, Ellis explains, are

predisposed to an unusually high sensitivity to their environments, and those

environments help to shape them, positioning them for either success or failure.

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environments has lately been making waves in both Ellis’ research and the scientific

community at large.

Not Your Garden Variety

So what does it mean to be an orchid child? First and foremost, there’s that profound

connection to environment. Ellis points out that researchers have long known that

high-risk environments set up kids for social and emotional problems. What they

hadn’t known was why some kids are more likely to succumb to harsh rearing con -

ditions and to get more out of supportive, nurturing homes than others. The orchid-

child hypothesis begins to explain this. “They’re really absorbing more of their

environment,” Ellis says of orchid children, “and that’s affecting their development.

It’s affecting their personality development. It’s affecting who they are.”

It also affects their health, says Dr. W. Thomas Boyce, a pediatrician and researcher

at the University of British Columbia. Boyce authored a paper in 1995, which reported

his findings from a study that examined 3- to 5-year-olds and their rates of respiratory

illnesses. The highly reactive kids—orchid children—reared in stressful environments

had the highest incidences of illness, but the orchids raised in low-stress, nurturing

homes had lower than normal rates of illness. “These kids that we saw as reactive in

the lab had either the worst or the best of the outcomes, depending upon the kind of

context they were living in,” says Boyce. “And the only explanation that we could put

forward for that was that reactivity wasn’t so much a risk factor as it was the kind of

factor that increased one’s sensitivity to the influence of the environment.”

What’s so interesting about orchid children is that, in order to exist, the right chem -

istry has to occur between genes and environment. It’s a phenomenon that unfolds

along a continuum, Boyce says, but already several “susceptibility” genes have been

identified for their connections to orchid children—the MAOA gene, the DRD4

gene, the serotonin-transporter gene—and Boyce and Ellis contend there are likely

many more. “But of course genes don’t just have magical effects,” Ellis says. “Genes

basically affect the processes going on inside your body. So genes play into things

like your stress physiology, how biologically reactive you are to environmental

challenges.” This neurobiological space between genes and behavior is precisely

what Ellis and Boyce study and where the orchid-child discovery was made.

Several ‘suscept ibility'

genes have been

identified for their

connections to

orchid children.

The Reaping

Recognizing and understanding orchid children is a prospect with far-reaching effects.

For parents and schools, Boyce says, it’s a wake-up call that parenting is not a “one-


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size-fits-all” endeavor. (At this, I think of Isabelle again and how much kid-glove

treatment she seems to require, as opposed to the children of my friends.) As

evidenced by the rates of respiratory illness, it would be in our society’s best interest

to adjust the way we think about and raise our children. “If we can find a way of

addressing the health needs of this one-in-five child who has this disproportionate

rate of problems,” Boyce says, “we’d really be addressing many of the public-health

needs of the entire population of children.”

Researchers in child development, Ellis adds, are almost all asking questions about

the extent to which children’s experiences affect their development. (Ellis himself is

currently studying the effects of family environments on children’s pubertal development

and sexual behavior.) The orchid-child theory answers that question, he says, in that

it depends upon how susceptible a child is to his environment. Whether, in other

words, the child is an orchid or a dandelion. “So it has huge implications,” Ellis says.

“And if you’re trying to design interventions or programs to help kids, kids are going

to be differentially susceptible to those programs.”

Perhaps most compellingly, the orchid-child theory touches on evolutionary

science as well. In their research, Boyce and Ellis discovered, “a disproportionate

number of orchids in both highly supportive families and in highly stressed envi -

ronments,” Ellis says. The average-stress households carried a disproportionate

number of dandelions. This allocation of orchids and dandelions, Boyce and Ellis

contend, is decidedly nonrandom. “We have hypothesized that kids are either

developing or maintaining high levels of biological sensitivity in both of these really

supportive environments and stressful environments,” Ellis says. In the stressful

environments, orchids hone their abilities to detect danger and stay abreast of

threats—making the best, in effect, of a bad situation. The price, unfortunately, is

compromised health and greater risk for developing anxiety and depression.

In the supportive environments, however, orchids stand to benefit more than

anyone else. It’s nature’s way of breeding high-achievers. Ellis points out how, in

rhesus monkeys, orchids often become leaders of their troops when they are raised

by highly skilled mothers, but tend to fall to the bottom of the pecking order when

raised by merely average mothers. Similar effects seem to occur in people. When

raised in supportive home and family environments, orchids grow up healthy and

competent; they are intuitive and unusually creative. (Here, I think of Isabelle and her

improvised poetry and searing emotional insights.) Orchid children, in other words,

have a lot to offer society. “I think these are pretty extraordinary people,” Boyce sums

up, “and under the right circumstances they can do extraordinary things.”

Orchid Adults Because the research on orchid children is so new—the first documented studies were published in 2005, and onlyrecently has the theory begun to build momentum withinthe scientific community—there is no definitive informationyet available about what orchid children grow up to become.Nonetheless, both Bruce J. Ellis, Ph.D. and W. Thomas Boyce,M.D., coauthors of “Biological Sensitivity to Context” andauthorities on the orchid-child theory, recognize similaritiesbetween orchid children and Elaine Aron’s work with theHighly Sensitive Person (HSP), or Sensory-ProcessingSensitivity (SPS).

“What we don’t know is whether the kids that we’reidentifying within childhood populations are the ones whoend up being identified as highly sensitive people in terms of Aron’s work,” Boyce says. “I would guess that there arecontinuities between childhood and adulthood, because itseems and feels and smells like a predisposition that doesn’tgo away with maturation, but nobody has done the studiesto document that.”

Read through Aron’s Web site, hsperson.com, and you’llhear echoes of Boyce and Ellis’ research on orchid children.There’s the same frequency, for starters. Approximately onein five children are orchids, while roughly 15 to 20 percentof adults have SPS. Aron also identifies SPS as an innate traitthat allows adults to process information “more deeply” thanothers. They’re often mislabeled as shy or introverted whenin reality, Aron argues, HSPs are probably just evaluating thesituation before acting. And, like orchid children, HSPs areeasily overwhelmed by stimulating situations or by too muchchange at once.

Boyce speculates that as orchid children reach adulthood,their basic needs probably won’t change all that much. They’lllikely still benefit from time alone, he says, and from having a set of close, reliable friends. Routines and minimal changeare other helpful environmental characteristics for theseorchid adults, he posits.

Even if all orchid children don’t grow up to be HSPs, there’senough similarity to render Aron’s many books on the sub -ject a valuable resource. The Highly Sensitive Person andThe Highly Sensitive Child (both from Broadway Books) aretwo of several titles by Aron that are worth looking into forthose who are either HSPs themselves or related to one.

In supportive

envi ronments, orchids

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Whether looking for communityor to escape the 9-to-5 cubiclegrind, a growing number ofprofessionals are tryingcoworking on for size.

BY WALT LOCKLEY PHOTOGRAPHY BY ART HOLEMAN

picture

out of the office

Picture yourself sitting in a well-known coffee-shopchain, mid-morning. You’re killing time before anappointment, eavesdropping on a job interview at thenext table. The applicant is a young woman along thelines of Kirsten Dunst. The two interviewers are bothdark-haired, murmuring with their backs to you, in acool, comfortable shadow, but the lighting is workingagainst the applicant. She’s sitting straight under aspotlight, lit like a crystal bowl in a department store.It’s worse than unflattering. Her eyes look hooded, herhair shines too brightly, and her smile is strained. Shelooks stricken.

Not long ago, holding a job interview in Starbuckswould have reflected badly on everybody. Today, it’sjust business as usual. We appear to be working all thetime, in every imaginable setting, under spotlights incoffee shops, or half-curled up in one of those detestableairport lounge chairs, or at home taking a 6 a.m. con -ference call in what might loosely be called sleepwear.

It’s gradually dawning on a growing number ofpeople that these places are unsuitable for real work.The interesting news is that, having fled the office, the office suddenly looks very appealing.

Out of the Office One day, in the early 90’s maybe, a single corporateworker somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Areadiscovered, with a sense of wonder, that he or she hadbecome wireless. Magically untethered. He or she wasthe first digital nomad, capable of working anywhere.Naturally, he or she fled the building, like a single redballoon drifting out into freedom.

This attracted the attention of others. They alsoquickly got laptops and cell phones and becamehappily detached from their traditional offices. It wasfascinating to track where those red balloons driftedand landed, with sales reps and sysops calling in theirperformances from Coronado Beach or the top of Camelback Mountain. (“Guess where I am?”)

That era of wireless adventure seems like a longtime ago. In the last decade, so many red balloonsdrifted away that many traditional corporate officeshave emptied out and gone dark forever.

Like our Kirsten Dunst stand-in, today many of us take calls, work up drafts and get interviewed incoffee shops, as a regular thing. Of course, the $4.75for an iced latte seems expensive, but it includes therent for seat and signal. In crowded markets like NewYork and San Francisco, you can stand and watch the cutthroat competition for the choice spots by the window. Even in more relaxed settings, theatmosphere is not always right. It’s O.K. for a while.But it wears thin.


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the shared office inphoenix

Many of us work from home. Just that shortphrase “work from home” evokes a stream of imagesand ambivalent half-jokes about the attractions anddistractions of working under the same roof whereyou sleep. There’s the dog, the dishes, the refrigerator,the occasional serious struggle with self-disciplineand the surprising grind of a 30-foot commute inbunny slippers. It can get terribly lonely in thosebunny slippers. If one of them starts whispering to the other, it’s time to get out.

A few digital nomads find and cultivate their ownsecret workplaces, for instance the shared conferencearea of a condo complex or a sunny corner of theneighborhood library. The library works well for quietsolo typing. But like Starbucks, these secret places aresimply not set up for telephone work, and they’rehopelessly unsuitable for one-on-ones, mass meetings,training sessions, teleconferences or videoconferences.These practical limitations pose a minor irritant andwaste time. More importantly, over time, no matterwhat brave face you put on, this chronic rootlessnessundermines your productivity.

So is there a place in the Phoenix area where a self-respecting digital nomad can get a decently equipped,appropriate, comfortable workspace? Where is thesmart nomad supposed to go?

It’s called an office.

The Shared Office in Phoenix A “shared office” is an office community where workspaces are available for rent. It’s a simple and elegantidea, developed in the Bay Area in 2005 by a fellownamed Brad Neuberg, who coined the term “cowork,”dropping the hyphen.

Rent a shared office, and you’ve become a co-worker.Stroll in, and there’s the good old half-forgotten friend, the“desk.” The immediate practical advantages includesharing office equipment like printers, copiers androuters; office furniture; white boards; good, strong,steady Wi-Fi with friendly technical assistance close at hand; a kitchen; bookable meeting rooms andaudiovisual equipment; perhaps a multimedia library;maybe a shared receptionist. Some have cooperativearrangements with shared offices in other cities, pro -viding a ready-made home base for business travelers.

The cost of these resources gets split among everybody.Co-workers interact with other busy professionals whoare working on completely unrelated, but potentiallyinteresting, jobs and projects. Shared offices come with acertain amount of human energy, so everybody has achance to compare notes, catch up on national newsand local gossip, and everybody has a reason to irontheir shirts and wear shoes. No more bunny slippers.

“It’s absolutely great,” says Julia Henton, who’s beensharing a rented cooperative office in the northwestValley for about two years, “although of course thereare drawbacks. The main thing is simply being aroundother people every day, being expected to show up,contribute and talk. That’s a different world thanworking from home. It feels a lot healthier.” Hentonshares an office with four other principal “allies” andtheir guests, splitting the cost based on how oftenthey use the facility. The cost is one drawback for her.The other is staying conscious of who’s in the office,just to make sure they belong.

Interested? Check out Gangplank.Gangplank is a “collaborative coworking facility, tech

incubator and education academy” on Elliot Road inChandler. Even co-founders Jade Meskill and DerekNeighbors struggle a bit when explaining the Gangplankbusiness model—“a group of connected individualsand small businesses creating an economy ofinnovation and creativity in the Valley”—but theirdescription of what Gangplank has offered digitalnomads since 2007 goes to the heart of the shared-office philosophy. “The shared-office space is freefirst-come, first-serve desks, conference rooms,breakout rooms and podcasting studio, along withfree Wi-Fi and power,” Meskill says. “The space servesas the catalyst for collaboration, as well as a singlepoint for people to congregate to explore ideas.”

Note that Gangplank does not want rent. That’s zero dollars it’s asking for.

Wait. Free rent? Yes. Gangplank has started smalland taken strategic advantage of some lucky real-estatebreaks, like a recent grant from the city of Chandler,and used the resulting community of people to feedreferrals and ideas to their affiliated for-profitorganization, Integrum Technologies. Meskill andNeighbors don’t charge rent or claim any cut of thenew businesses created there, unless they invest directly.

The catch is that tenants must be actively involved.“The concept of giving away space seems odd to mostpeople, but by removing barriers a wider range of peopleare able to participate,” Neighbors explains. “Increasingthe density of people provides more ideas and a greaterchance for serendipity to work its magic. While spaceat Gangplank is offered at no charge, participation isrequired.” Among the many results of Gangplank’scollaborations is an online directory of shared officesacross the country, findable at wurkspaces.com.

Asked what kind of challenges Gangplank faces three years into the experiment, Meskill names three:“Chang ing how people think about working with eachother. Breaking apart five decades of growth/land-development mentality. Oh, and running out of space.”


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“The spaceserves as thecatalyst forcollaboration,as well as asingle point for people tocongregate to exploreideas.”

Jade Meskill, left,welcomes digitalworkers to hisbrainchild, Gangplankin Chandler—nopayment required.


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“Increasing

the density

of people

provides more

ideas and a

greater chance

for serendipity

to work

its magic.”

Working alone,together, coworkersdiscover thatinspiration oftenstrikes from just adesk away.


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1. Respect the conventional wisdom.Say what you want about the restrictions of thecorporate “cube farm” paradigm, but it came withdiscipline baked into the surroundings. Steelcase andother companies invested decades of research intooffice ergonomics to get the physical work experiencejust right. They measured a lot of bottoms and elbows.If you find yourself with a less-than-perfect physicalsetup in terms of task lighting, table heights, adequateflat space around you, etc., consult the classics.

2. Foster the memory palace.Speaking of the classics, there’s something you shouldknow. The Greeks and Romans knew it; the Jesuitscholar and missionary Matteo Ricci taught it to theChinese in the 1580s; it’s been supported by up-to-datestudies of the hippocampus. Long story short, there’sa close neurological relationship between the spacesyou occupy and your ability to establish, organize andretain memories. So the link between your physicalwork setting and your mental performance is evenstronger than you thought. (Curious? Google “method of loci.”)

scheduled to open its doors as a fully-operational facilitythis September, and the founder, Terry Houghland, isfocused on fostering small businesses by running train ingcourses and establishing a coworking community. For $49a month, you buy into a work space and access to thisnetwork of students and experts developing their home-based businesses, Internet-marketing businesses andcommunity-education projects. Also, there’s a coffee shop.

Optin is itself a start-up. The differences between itsmodel and the Gangplank model in terms of the overallgoal, the feel and the terms of the relationship couldn’t be more obvious—they’re almost opposites.

But the core principle is the same. Both are more thanreal-estate deals. Read between the lines and you’ll see hope,in the good of providing a productive environment wherea coder and a real-estate lawyer see each other every dayand enjoy each other’s company, while the young guy learnsabout the risks of a second mortgage and the old guy learnsabout motion-capture and Project Natal. The hope is to grow and guide a working community that providesfresh opportunities for cross-pollination, founded onthe principle that people working together are happier,probably healthier, and certainly more productive than people working alone.

3. Know your arousal limits (in the technical sense).For psychologists “arousal” is the readiness of anyindividual to respond to environmental stimuli. And ifyou’ve ever worked with other people in the room, you’vebeen aroused (technically) by those people chewing theirlunches, playing terrible music, preening like peacocks andquacking like geese, thumping on the walls, over and overand over, until you want to kill them a little. It helps to knowthat a human’s taste for, and tolerance of, arousal subsideswith age. It’s a very measurable and reliable pattern. Keepyour mind on those age differences and be patient.

4. Comfort isn’t everything.Many digital nomads naturally gravitate toward a relaxedcafé-style atmosphere, with easy chairs and low lighting and warmish colors, because that’s where they want to be anyway. But comfort doesn’t provide the attention andfocus needed for real productivity. With posture, for instance,if you’re leaning back more than 15 degrees, it’s harder tosee what you’re doing, so it’s harder to feel focused andmotivated. Personally, I do my best work when I have anuncomfortable boss who comes around every once inawhile. Maybe I could rent one.

making it workfor you Four tips for making your

work surroundings work.

here to stay

Here to Stay Five years into the shared-office movement, it’s an ideathat’s here to stay. That’s despite, or maybe because of,the current economic conditions.

Shared offices come in different flavors, offerings and attitudes. Consult Craigslist for Phoenix and you’ll find a variety of choices at a variety of prices.Some down town, some in Tempe, others nothing morethan Scottsdale real-estate deals. Office-suite rentals forupward of $500 a month clearly fall outside the shared-office category.

But that’s the beauty of it: The shared-office ideaallows candidates to come have a look at the space, as a “drop-in,” and then maybe try it out for a week. If thelocation is good and the other people are friendly andstimulating, then a candidate might extend his stay to amonth. He becomes a resident, a key holder. He bringsin his books and plants and family photo graphs, setsup shop, gets comfortable, spreads out, stays everynight until 5 or 6 p.m., leaves it all there, then comesback in the morning. Just like the old days.

Office sharing is also a central part of the grandstrategy at Optin Learning Center in Mesa, an operationwith a much more traditional business plan. Optin is


All around the Valley, young entrepreneurs are taking

a swing at business—their way. Here, meet some of Arizona’s

most successful—and innovative—millennials.

By Si Robins

Photography by Art Holeman

AAcross the Valley, there’s an uprising underway. People aren’t waiting for a midlifecrisis to try something bold. Despite the sour economy, a few twenty- and earlythirty-something entrepreneurs, leaders and innovators are making a differencenow. It’s a youthquake, and it’s helping Arizona become a more vibrant, culturallysignificant place.

In Tempe, a nationally syndicated cartoonist is writing jokes, drawing at allhours, and reaching an audience of millions—from just a few blocks away fromwhere he grew up.

In a midtown office space, a smart, pioneering nonprofit connects high schoolerswith the biggest economic and social issues facing the world; and it's growing,teaching thousands of kids in the process.

In an unmarked downtown storefront, a coffee roaster is teaching customersabout his craft, creating java purists one by one.

In a leafy Gilbert subdivision, a multitalented artist is juggling a freelancelifestyle with a grassroots rise to Internet fame and financial stability.

And at fire stations across Phoenix, a young entrepreneur is working aroundthe clock in the name of music education, despite significant city cutbacks.

If young people are the future, then the Valley has a bright one. Though thesepeople are seemingly unrelated, each is a noteworthy cog in the process of theyoung becoming the significant.

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The Cartoonist Tony Carrillo

JJokes are quietly being written in a Tempe coffee shop, and mostpatrons have no idea. For today, this is the home base of F Minus, a nationally syndicated comic strip rooted in the Valley. Artist andwriter Tony Carrillo, a Tempe native and ASU grad, is the guybehind the witty strip, now in its sixth year of publication.

Carrillo didn’t really aspire to this position. After receiving arejection letter for his first comic from his high school paper, hedidn’t emphasize drawing strips until his sophomore year at ASU,when The State Press needed a cartoonist.

“They needed to fill a spot, and didn’t think much of it,” Carrillo,28, recalls. “I wasn’t actively looking for an opportunity like that,but it sounded fun. I always wanted to write comedy, but how doyou go about that?”

After four semesters in The State Press, Carrillo applied to a comicstrip contest through MTV and won, gaining nationwide syndication.

“Suddenly I’m on MTV with all the bright lights,” Carrillo recalls.“I’m sure the interview was terrible. I probably looked like a man -nequin. I never planned on doing this as a job. Everything that’shappened is a great surprise.”

“I never planned on doing this as a job.”

Four years later, Carrillo is syndicated, his work appears in morethan 100 newspapers and he has two published books full of strips,but he still faces the same difficulties as other comic artists.

“I’m always fighting deadlines, and writing jokes never comeseasy,” he says. “The drawing has gotten a lot easier, but coming upwith the joke is always tough.”

You’d never guess Carrillo writes the funnies. Quiet and laid back, his demeanor parallels the strip’s relaxed approach. F Minus’trade mark is its single-panel, clean look with a simple joke, whichdifferentiates it from a lot of other, busier syndicated strips.

In this economy, Carrillo has to deal with thinning newspapersand wavering subscriptions. Even still, he admits being published injust one paper is more than he ever hoped for, so Carillo is thankfulfor each one.

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Courtney Klein is proof that your first instinct may not always be the best. Klein, 26, started out in broadcast journalism at ASUand thought she wanted to become the next Katie Couric until aservice trip changed her life.

“After my freshman year in college I went to Akil, a rural com -munity in Mexico, and saw what poverty looked like firsthand andhow many people in the U.S. have no idea what’s happening inother parts of the world,” Klein recalls.

It didn’t take long for her to act.“I wrote a business plan, changed my major to nonprofit

management and submitted that plan my senior year at ASU to the Edson Student Entrepreneur Initiative,” Klein says. “They weren’t going to fund nonprofits, but I submitted thepaperwork anyway.”

In January 2005, Klein started with $1,000, a little office space and the mentorship of Lattie Coor. New Global Citizens,her youth-service nonprofit, was born.

“What we do is go to high schools and set up teams ofstudents that are passionate about global issues,” Klein explains.“We educate them about issues that are afflicting people allover the world—poverty, maternal health, access to water,universal education, environmental degradation, economicsustainability, etc.”

At first, four East Valley high schools were involved. Last year, 76 high schools across 18 states were part of themovement. The goal is to grow the curriculum and supportstructure so the program can be replicated anywhere—in bothrural and urban communities. Klein’s operations now boast nine full-time staff members, 16 members of her board of directors and lots of volunteers.

Key to the project’s growth is a $1 million matching grantfrom the Arizona Community Foundation. But Klein’s nonprofit has to raise its own $1 million for that grant to go into effect.Two months in, New Global Citizens is 20 percent of the waytoward raising that money within a 36-month time frame.

Confident and motivated, Klein speaks like a true entrepreneur and is clearly moved by her cause.

“The long-term goal is the transformation of high schoolstudents,” she says. “When their eyes are open to a new way of thinking and a new consciousness, how do they perceive their role in the world for the rest of their lives?”

But guiding the students toward a whole-world view isonly part of the appeal for Klein. She’s just as excited to meetmotivated young people and watch them grow into who theywant to be.

“My lifelong dream is that I’m replaced by one of our alumni,” she says, smiling. We didn’t do anything to get them where they are—they did everything.”

For more information on New Global Citizens, go tonewglobalcitizens.org, or call 602-263-0500.

The Philanthropist Courtney Klein

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The Barista Jason Silberschlag

IIf you walk into Cartel Coffee Lab’s bustling Tempe location in anondescript shopping mall near ASU, you wouldn’t think a coffeerevolution is happening. But thanks to Tucson-born-and-bred founderJason Silberschlag, the coffee purist’s movement has traction.

Silberschlag, 32, wasn’t always devoted to the coffee craft. Hemoved up to Mesa to be a youth pastor, but after a few years hewas longing for something different.

“I always wanted to own a coffee shop,” Silberschlag admits. “I got a job delivering sandwiches and I’d spend afternoons drivingaround, scouting out business locations and listening to NPR.”

It was only after Silberschlag went to a “barista jam” in Tucsonthat he realized how serious he was. A coffee-farm manager wasbooking a trip to visit Guatemalan coffee farms, and Silberschlagjumped on it.

“It was like going from being serious about coffee to beingserious about coffee—just unbelievable,” Silberschlag says about his visit. “I went from wanting to own a coffee shop to wanting toroast coffee. So, I spent another six months researching that.”

Over two years later, Cartel has blossomed into a two-store enterprise.The second location opened in downtown Phoenix in late 2009.

“The growth was slow at first, but now it’s very sustainable,”Silberschlag says of the store. “You kind of have to know someoneto know where it is.”

The bohemian warehouse feel of the Tempe location hasn’t been replicated downtown. Instead, that store is bright, clean andmore conventional looking.

“It’s a totally different clientele downtown, so it will be a goodtest for our business model,” Silberschlag says. “We’ll see if peopleput up with us, because we definitely have some strange coffee rules.”

He’s referring to Cartel’s coffee-purist reputation. You won’t finda Frappuccino or Caramel Macchiato on Cartel’s menu, becauseSilberschlag believes in the sanctity of natural coffee taste. Themenu does have chocolate and vanilla syrup—used in much smallerquantities than at other coffee shops—but that’s about it.

Coffee is serious here: Barista candidates are put through astringent 40-hour non-paid training period that allows the shop to find the best coffee-minded individuals.

Even the beans themselves are carefully chosen. Silberschlagpredominantly sources from farms in Central and South America—he’svisited about 20—because of the sustainability and the bright taste.

“What sets us apart is the transparency of where we get ourcoffee—we tend to buy coffee from socially responsible farmers,”Silberschlag says. “When I go to the farms, I see that the livingconditions are good.”

The eventual goal: to be the first North American coffee roasterto own a coffee farm. For now, Silberschlag stays busy managing his stores and serving an education to his customers, along with the good brew.

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“I’m a horrible employee, but I’m a great entrepreneur,” NateAnderson of Ear Candy laughs. He’s not being cocky, he’s speakingfrom experience. The Miami University grad worked in corporateAmerica but couldn’t stand it, so he moved to Arizona to start a realestate company with a friend. However, something still wasn’t right.

“My heart wasn’t in it,” Anderson, 27, recalls. “I knew I wanted touse my skills—entrepreneurship coupled with a passion for music—and I created Ear Candy in 2007.”

Simply put, Ear Candy’s mission is to provide youngsters withmusical instruments and to encourage music education.

The nonprofit initially hosted music events to raise money forcharity, but after hosting a few, Anderson really wanted to do some -thing for music education directly. That’s when the shift happened.

“I didn’t see anyone doing anything about musical education tothe degree that it needed to be done,” Anderson says. “I don’t thinkanyone is reaching the number of kids we’re on the cusp of hitting.There are 1.2 million kids in Arizona, and all of them need musiceducation in some capacity.”

The operation is still pretty small—a board of directors, a fewinterns and a few helpers—but Anderson anticipates that changingin the coming months.

“I’m a perfectionist,” says Anderson, who works 60-plus hoursa week on the cause. “We’ve experienced a lot of growth for anonprofit. At the same time, I always want more and I alwayswant to do better. No one is doing this as grassroots andcommunity based as we are.”

Surprisingly, Anderson himself isn’t a musician, though with his beard and shoulder-length hair he looks like he could be.He’s just always identified with music and wants to share the“overflowing positive energy” he’s gotten from it.

Now Ear Candy is teaming up with the Phoenix Fire Departmentto use fire stations as instrument drop-off locations. There will befour drives in 2010, focusing on school districts in particular need.It’s all part of making a big musical impact.

That impact has been widespread, reaching thousands of kidsalready. But as adamant as Anderson is about music in the classroom,he’s just as vocal about getting kids out in the world to check outother aspects of music—whether it’s meeting musicians, going toconcerts or visiting higher-education facilities. Most importantly, hewants to stress to kids that they don’t have to be professionalmusicians to make music a part of their everyday lives.

“I’m not a musician, but I’m involved in music 365 days a year, 24hours a day,” Anderson says. “I don’t even know what some ofthese instruments are that come in! I learn so much every day.”

For more information about Ear Candy, go to earcandycharity.org, or call 623-826-0202.

The Crusader Nate Anderson

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It’s hard enough to make your name in one medium, but Gilbertartist Promise Tangeman is so busy juggling photography,graphic design, trinket making, fine art and blogging that shedoesn’t know how to identify herself. Tangeman, 24, whomoved to the Valley from outside Seattle, loves having herhands in many projects.

“I’m just a little design girl who makes stuff,” she laughs. “I’mpretty much the only person I know doing what I’m doing in thisrandom of a place.” That place, again, is Gilbert, and yes, it’s a farcry from some of the Valley’s more art-inclined enclaves.

Within minutes of opening her portfolio, she’s gushing overher wedding album, eagerly showing decorations she andfriends designed and handmade boutonnieres she presented to groomsmen.

Her excitement over the album isn’t surprising, given her manyinterests. In fact, she can hardly finish one thought about the pagebefore blurting out the next. The fervor is there, and the talent is obvious.

Tangeman is enjoying unexpected success, to the point thatshe gets to pick and choose projects and doesn’t have to search

for clients. Rather, they seek her out—for a photo shoot, a designscheme or some super-quirky accessories—through her increasinglypopular blog and Twitter feed.

“Going through school, I felt pressure to focus on one thingand try to be the best at it,” she remembers. “But why limityourself? This year, I said I was going to do whatever I wanted.”

Currently, Tangeman is finishing designs for children’s clothierMatilda Jane; branding designs for composer John Debney;designing an album for musician Ryan Axtell; crafting weddinginvitations and a line of jewelry and accessories; and makingcountless photo edits.

“It’s a lot of work, right?” she laughs. “I’m really inspired to do it, and it’s really fun. The economy is so bad right now, but I’m surviving doing what I love.”

Eventually, Tangeman would like to start a business partnershipwith like-minded creatives, but she’s still feeling out her niche.

“I have an entrepreneurial spirit,” she says. “I really love usingmy art for the greater good, but I just don’t know what that meansfor me yet in the long term. I love collaborating with other artists,so that’s a possibility. For now, I really like the variety.”

The ArtistPromise Tangeman

What’sInspiring theYouthquake?Our panel shares local favorites.

Courtney Klein: Local FirstArizona. “We as a city arefinally catching on that localbusiness is what makes a cityvibrant,” Klein says. “Phoenixis becoming kind of cool, butI don’t want it to move back -ward. Local First is makingsure that doesn’t happen.”

Nate Anderson: Tempe bandWhat Laura Says. “I thinkthey have the most potentialto make it,” Anderson says.“They’re consistently thetightest, most evolving band,and I’ve seen them probably20 times in the last year. Outof all the things bubbling inPhoenix from a musicalstandpoint, they have it.”

Jason Silberschlag: “I’mgoing to be really selfish, but I’m really excited about having a baby,”Silberschlag says with a grin. At the time of theinterview, Silberschlag was “on call,” waiting forword of his wife’s delivery at any moment.

Promise Tangeman:Whatchaseewhatchaget,a band that used to play atBlack Forest Mill in Phoenixon Friday nights. “The band has soul like no other, andthey know how to rock,”Tangeman says.

Tony Carrillo: The ChineseShaolin Center in Tempe.“I’ve always wanted to learnkung fu,” Carrillo says. “It’s a really great group ofpeople, a great workout and a great release.”

“I’m just a little design girl who makes stuff.”


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patron profile

By Yvette Johnson

easy thing. So, in 1985 he moved to Phoenixto start a career in real estate.

“My goal was to be able to work realhard for 20 or so years and then retire at arelatively young age and devote the rest ofmy life to playing music again,” DeAngelissays. “That’s where I’m at now.”

When he arrived in Phoenix 25 yearsago, DeAngelis discovered KJZZ and wasthrilled to find such a good jazz station inhis new city. Although DeAngelis was dis -appointed when KJZZ switched from an all-day jazz format to include NPR program -ming, he says he still appreciates that KJZZ“exposes people to instrumental music whootherwise wouldn’t be listening to it.” Andhe’s since become a fan of NPR’s compre -hensive news, too. These days, his dial isalways tuned to KJZZ.

While DeAngelis loves to play jazz, he

PPhil DeAngelis has loved jazz for almost 40years. “My dad owned a music store, so Iwas always around it,” he says. “I learned to play the guitar at 7 and was in bands allthrough junior high.” Of course, duringthose years DeAngelis mostly played rock; it was what was popular then.

However, in his late teens he discoveredthe beautiful complexity of jazz. “A friend of mine had a Wes Montgomery album,” hesays. “I put it on and tried to play along andhad absolutely no idea what I was doing. Alight came on for me, and I realized howsimple rock harmonies are compared tojazz. It was a shocking awakening.”

From then on, DeAngelis has been a jazzdevotee. “That’s actually what I did for aliving—play in a jazz group—until I was inmy late 20’s,” he says. But DeAngelis realizedthat making a living as a musician was no

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The Patrons Leadership Society

(PLS) is a diverse group ofphilanthropic individ uals andfamilies committed tosustaining KJZZ & KBAQ’sability to inspire and informmembers of our communitywith world-class news, musicand informational program -ming. Members of the PLSshare the distinction of being

our stations’ most generous annual con -tributors, giving $1,000 or more eachyear to one or both stations. In return, PLS members are grant ed behind-the-scenes access to our studios and are invited to participate in exclusiveprogramming and private visits with public radio personalities from across the country. For more infor mation about the PLS, please contact Aaron Pratt at 480-774-8453 or [email protected].

is first and foremost a fan. “I really like jazzfrom the mid 50’s,” he says, “Miles Davis andJohn Coltrane and all the guys who played intheir bands. One of my favorite musicians isWayne Shorter. He’s an unbelievable composer,as well as an unbelievable player. I also loveHerbie Hancock. I was fortunate enough toplay in the opening act of several concertswith him.”

But DeAngelis doesn’t just look back.“Recently, I’ve stumbled upon somemusicians from northern Europe that are unbelievable; particularly some young guitar players,” he says. Some of his favorites are Lage Lund, Jesse vanRuller and Martijn van Iterson. “Theseguys don’t sound like anybody else. You don’t hear the typical clichés.”

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Gone Swimmin’ Seven perfect places to plunge.

travelStory and photosby Peter Aleshire

A clean dive.A cool dip.A glad gurgle.

The perfect swimming holeconjures summer and soaks into memory.

Now, you poor fools deserveall sorts of credit for gettingthrough yet another 115 degreesummer, roasting here on ourown little heat island.

But don’t be ridiculous. We’llstill admire your fortitude if you sneak off every so often tosoak in one of Arizona’s raretreasures—a stream that burblesand splashes through a perfectswimming hole, where you canindulge your inner Huck Finn—

and maybe bond with the kids(or grandkids).

So, culled from 20 years ofknocking about the Arizonaoutback, I offer seven strategicallyscattered Arizona creeks alongwhich you can find the specialjoys of a shaded swimming hole.Alas, I ran out of room before Icould tell you about Wet BeaverCreek near Sedona, the WhiteRiver in the White Mountains,Cherry Creek or WorkmanCreek in the Sierra Anchas,Cibecue Creek in the Salt River Canyon, the Salt Riveritself or Turkey Creek in theChiricahuas—but, hey, I haveto save something for myself.


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Equal parts iconic andidyllic, Oak Creek isquintessentially Arizona.

Oak Creek

The weekend crowds constitute the one and only crack in the dam

of my affections for Oak Creek—especially on weekends at Red RockCrossing and Slide Rock. Oak Creekhas soaked into my heart thanks to that afternoon 7-year-old Noahmade himself into the mud monster;the happy hours of crawfish huntingwith toddlers; the slide down theSlide Rock chutes of sandstone—and even the trip to the Sedonadoctor to stitch up Caleb’s foreheadafter a fall on the aforementionedchutes. Oak Creek has it all—world-famous scenery, vortexes that can soothe your soul, brilliantlycolored birds, trout pools, mudbanks, cottonwoods dangling ropeswings over deep pools, gloriousshade, bright sun, red rocks andgushy mud.

Of course, one must contendwith those crowds—so try to goduring the week. You can also get a little more privacy by driving upState Route 89A and looking for an unoccupied turnout so you canforsake the car and scramble downto the stream. The state stocks thecreek with trout, but you can alwaystake the kids to the fish farm offState 89A as your backup plan. Ofcourse, if you’re in a better incomebracket than scribblers like me,investigate renting a streamsidecabin for a week—preferablysomeplace with a deep pool and a long rope tied to a tall tree.

Summary: The most beautiful,refreshing, varied stream in Arizona—marred only by the swarms of peoplethat have dis covered its charms. Enjoythe crowded scene at Oak CreekCrossing and Slide Rock, or drive 89A looking for an unpopulatedsection of stream.Facilities: Lots of hotels in Sedona.Cheaper hotels available in CampVerde and Cottonwood. Developedcampground at Page Springs andcommercial camps along 89A.Access: Take Interstate 17 to StateRoute 179, then to 89A in Sedona.


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Summary: This 15-mile stretchof stream offers a scattering ofdeep pools, a couple of water -falls, open camping spots andlots of chances to catch a trout.Access: Take State Route 87—the Beeline Highway—about 90miles out of Phoenix and onthrough Payson toward Pine and Strawberry. Just outsidePayson, take Houston MesaRoad east about seven miles.Water Wheel lies between thefirst, bridged crossing and thesecond crossing, where thestream flows across the road.

East Verde River— Water Wheel

This little-known treasure justoutside Payson offers one of

the best all-around swimmingholes in Arizona. The East VerdeRiver emerges from a spring at thebase of the Mogollon Rim andflows down past Payson and into awilderness area to merge with theVerde River. Houston Mesa Roadon the outskirts of Payson followsthe East Verde, offering ampleaccess. The Arizona Game andFish Depart ment stocks the streamwith trout every week.

Water Wheel offers the bestsingle swimming hole along the

Fossil Creek

Ialmost hate to tell anyoneabout Fossil Creek—but

seeing as how we’re so close, I’ll make an exception. At themoment, Fossil Creek ranks asmy favorite swimming hole inthe whole state—and it’s onlyabout 100 miles from Phoenix.The creek gushes from a streamladen with travertine at the base

whole stretch of river, with a 40-foot waterfall and a deep pool.Normally, the Water Wheel Camp - ground bustles with people allsummer. But after a fire last summer,the Forest Service closed it. So youmay need to go past the camp -ground up the hill to Second Cross -ing. Right by the road, you’ll find a nice little pool of water stockedregularly with trout. To the right,you can climb down to anotherbeautiful pool, swim it and hikedownstream to the waterfall. In truth,you can find all sorts of ways downto the creek off Houston Mesa Road.

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stream. That’s probably the onlyreason this stream hasn’t beenoverrun. The spring that feeds it gushes reliably, creating mileafter mile of little waterfalls and deep pools. Moreover, the Arizona Game and FishDepart ment has established acatch-and-release fishery therefor native chub—perhaps betterknown as Verde trout. (You have to use barbless hooks andlures and immediately releaseanything you catch.) When they emptied the stream of non-native fish, put the waterback in and restocked it withnative fish—they also managedto get rid of the crawfish, theinvasive scourge of almost everyother stream in the state.

Summary: Magical, mostly be -cause of the blue-green water,Fossil Creek has been broughtback from the dead and has nowbecome a refuge for native fish.Facilities: The Coconino NationalForest has banned camping alongthe creek but maintains someportable toilets during the summer.Access: From Payson, take StateRoute 260 to Strawberry and turnon Fossil Creek Road. Follow thedirt road down a hair-raising,hairpin ride down into the canyon.It’ll take you about 50 minutesfrom Payson. You can also pick up Fossil Creek Road outsideCamp Verde, just down State 260 from Interstate 17.

Fossil Creek begsadventurous souls tojump feet-first intoits blue-green water.

Part of Tonto Creek’sallure is the difficulttrek to get there.

of the Mogollon Rim and flowssome 15 miles to its junctionwith the Verde River. Thetravertine gives the creek amind-blowing blue-green cast,like the famous Havasu Creek.Moreover, the travertine createsalmost swampy stretches ofstream (except the water remainscrystal clear) and a fascinatingarchitecture with strange dripcastles, stone dams and littlespillovers.

For nearly a century, APSdiverted creek water out througha flume to generate power forPhoenix. About four years ago,APS decommissioned the powerplant, returning water to the

nearly exhausted, at Gisela,which waits at the end of ForestService Road 417 off State Route87. Tonto Creek continues onsouth into Roosevelt Lake.

Summary: Tonto Creek offerssweltering desert dwellers anidyllic mountain stream for thecost of a roughly two-hour drive.Fish and splash along the easilyaccessible section just off StateRoute 260, or plunge into thewilderness for a canyoneeringexperience.Facilities: There’s a Forest Service streamside campgroundalong Forest Service Road 289 off State 260, and another byChristopher Creek, a few milesfarther along 260. The historicKohls Ranch offers rental cabinsand time-shares right on the creek, too.Access: From Payson, follow 260 16 miles to FR 289, whichruns along the creek. To back packthe very difficult Hells Gate Trail,turn off 260 at Forest ServiceRoad 405A about 11 miles east of Payson and drive about a halfmile to the trailhead at ForestService Road 893. To reachGisela, turn off State 87 at FR417/Gisela Road, then followTonto Creek Shores/Drive.

Tonto Creek

The spring-fed, upper-reachesof Tonto Creek offer parched

Phoenicians one of the bestalternatives to sweating out thesummer. Tonto Creek boastsgreat trout fishing in a succes -sion of beautiful ponds andcascades in its rocky bottom—stocked all summer from theArizona Game and Fish De -partment hatchery near where a spring gushes from the base of the legendary Mogollon Rim.Fed by water seeping throughthe massive sandstone layers of the forested Rim Country,Tonto Creek seems conjuredfrom the mountain and thenrushes down its steep gradecollecting Christopher Creekwaters before plunging downpast the pines and pools into the vividly named HellsgateWilderness.

This easily accessible stretchof river perfectly combines waterand scenery—but you’ll have tooverlook the crowds. On theother hand, the lower reaches ofTonto Creek in the wildernessarea offer an unforgettable stintof canyoneering. It’s a strenuoushike, and you’ll need to bring awater filter, but here you can godays without seeing anyone. Theriver returns to civilization, often


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Black River

The Black River gurgleshappily along through the

8,000-foot-high forest from near Alpine and down into the7,000-foot mixed pine and oakwoodlands of the San CarlosApache Reservation. Pines,willows and alders line its banks,while bunches of grass overhangits undercut banks where inter -mittently cooperative troutlinger. The blessing and thecurse of the Black River remainsthe road that runs along itsbanks. It provides easy access to an eight-mile incantation ofpools, riffles and bends—whichmeans you can easily spend theday exploring the river but mustcontend with others with thesame yen. The dirt and gravelForest Service Road 276 followsthe river’s east fork, while ForestService Road 25 goes by the

smaller west fork. Once thesetwo streams join, they headdown into a steep canyon tomeet the White River—therebycreating the Salt River, whichmakes Phoenix possible.

Summary: Great scenery, fishingand access in the cool, forestedhigh country that offers one ofthose perfect fantasies of child -hood that will make you wonder,at least briefly, whether you took a wrong turn and ended up in the Rocky Mountains—so long as you avoid the summertimeweekend crowds.Facilities: Excellent campgroundsall along the river. Several lodgesand rental cabins around Alpineand Hannagan Meadow, about 20 miles south on U.S. Route 191.Access: Take U.S. Route 60 fromGlobe through the spectacular Salt

River Canyon, and on throughShow Low to Springer ville andthen U.S. Route 180/191 toAlpine. Off U.S. 191 just northof Alpine, Forest Service Road249 leads to FR 276, whichfollows the east fork, eventuallymeeting up with FR 25 for thewest fork, too. Or from 191south of Alpine toward HannaganMeadow, hop on Forest ServiceRoad 26 and head for ForestService Road 24 to get to 25.

Grassy meadows, tall pinesand scenic waters—BlackRiver boasts the perfectrecipe for a summer day.

Back-road travel can be hazardous,and high-clearance vehicles areadvised. Be aware of weather androad conditions, and carry plenty ofwater. Don’t travel alone, and letsomeone know where you’re goingand when you plan to return.

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mit from the Bureau of LandManagement—available onlineor at the BLM office in Safford—to do this, and access is limitedto 50 people per day. Those eagerfor a life experience will findsome way to start from one endand hike all the way through—most likely spending onenight in the middle. The hikeitself takes about 10 hours fromone road through to the other.That’s assuming you can resistthe lure of the many sidecanyons and the overpoweringtemp tation to stretch out on asandy bank under a sycamore.

Summary: A green miracle of a spring-fed, sycamore-graced,canyon-contained, year-roundstream gurgling through a thornedand sun-blasted desert. Facilities: There’s a good campsiteon the eastern side but verylimited facilities in Klondyke.Access: To get to the passenger-car friendlier western side: FromSuperior, take State Route 177 to Winkelman and then StateRoute 77 for 11 miles to AravaipaRoad. Drive east on the gravel road12 miles to the trailhead. For theharder to reach eastern side: FromGlobe, take U.S. Route 70 toKlondyke Road (eight miles pastFort Thomas). Take a right andfollow this dirt road about 45 milesthrough Klondyke to the trailhead.You’ll encounter a few streamcrossings toward the end, so you’llneed a high-clearance vehicle(four-wheel drive wouldn’t hurt, either) and the road is also subject to flooding and closure in wet weather.

Noted for its desertstream and grand cliffs,the Aravaipa Wildernessarea is home to some ofArizona’s most remoteand spectacular scenery.

Aravaipa Creek

Running through the heart of the Aravaipa Canyon

Wilderness, this spring-fed,often ankle-deep streamnurtures a sycamore jungle inthe midst of a scrub desert.Anyone sampling the creek’srefreshing waters should comeprepared to spend most of the day crossing repeatedly from bank to bank. That lushstreamside vegetation threadedthrough the 3,000-foot-elevationdesert surrounding the canyonmakes the creek a wildlifeparadise. Any day spent splash -ing through Aravaipa Canyonwill likely seep into the aquiferof your permanent memories.

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San Pedro River

The San Pedro River remainsone of the most remarkable,

endangered and fitful strugglesof water in the desert. The lowflows along its 140-mile lengthprotected it from the ambitionsof the dam-builders who havedestroyed or altered almost all theriparian areas in the Southwest.

The San Pedro meanders past Tombstone and on towardBenson—running happily alongat the height of the spring runoffand the summer monsoons. Itoffers one of the best places toget a glimpse of a relativelyintact cottonwood-willowriparian habitat, the mostbiologically productive habitat in North America. All of thisattracts some 350 species ofbirds, more than 80 species of

of Sierra Vista. The prettiest,most easily accessible stretch isjust north of the bridge over theriver halfway between Sierra Vistaand Tombstone. You can alsofollow the river on a good gravelroad that starts at Benson andmeanders north to State Route 77near Oracle.

SUMMARY: The fitful San Pedro pro vides one of the most remark - able wildlife habitats in NorthAmerica. The river draws 350species of birds and a chance tosplash through a lazy streambeneath a canopy of cotton woods.FACILITIES: Excellent hotels in Sierra Vista, Tombstone or Bensoncan serve as a base of operations.There’s a visitor center seven mileseast of Sierra Vista on State 90.

Cheers toThat!

In an upcoming issue of Wavelength, we’llbe looking at our state’s emergent wineregions. Got a favorite Arizona wine, wineryor wine-country destination? Write us [email protected].

If you’ve got a passionfor birds, migrate to theSan Pedro, one of therichest wildlife habitatsin the Southwest.

butterflies, 83 mammals andmore than 65 species ofamphibians and reptiles. In fact,nearly two-thirds of the birdspecies found in the U.S. flitthrough the San Pedro in thecourse of a year. That’s why theNature Conservancy deemed itone of the world’s “Last GreatPlaces” and why the Bureau ofLand Management designated a40-mile, easily accessible stretchas the San Pedro RiparianNational Conservation Area. Nonetheless, the river facesserious threats—mostly fromgroundwater pumping in andaround the boomtown of SierraVista. Average flows have drop -ped an estimated 75 percent inthe past half century. The rivercrosses State Route 90 just east


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support multiple sclerosis research.“We actually don’t have a lot of time, but

we spend the time that we do have the bestthat we can,” Ramon says.

Ramon works for StandardAero and is an ordained deacon in the Southern Baptistchurch. Linda, a full-time volunteer, takesseveral mission trips a year and mans phonesat KJZZ and KBAQ fundraisers, too. Volun -teering for the stations is a natural fit, sinceboth Linda and Ramon are avid fans.

“Life has enough stress in it,” Ramon says. “I don’t need more from my radiostation. In my car, I can set up to 20preselected stations. I only have two set up: KJZZ and KBAQ.”

Their appreciation extends so far, theyeven request KBAQ at the gym. Athletes’Performance, where they work out five days a week, normally has loud, heavy musicstreaming from its speakers. The strong beatsand fast rhythms are intended to motivate themany professional athletes that exercise there.

For the Nunezes, though, that kind ofmusic just doesn’t cut it. To train for theirphysically grueling trips, they work out hard. And they do it to classical music.

“Classical music helps me focus,” saysLinda. “I think it has surprised people how energetic some of the classical pieces can be. They always think of it like it’s in slow-motion, but it’s not that way at all.”

Ramon’s preference for classical boilsdown to what feels good deep down. “I prefer to have music that soothes my soul,rather than accosts it,” he says.

TThey may be Phoenix residents, but Lindaand Ramon Nunez can often be foundelsewhere. Whether Linda is volunteering in Argentina or China or the couple is scaling Mount Kilimanjaro, the Nunezesknow how to fill a passport.

While they work safaris and sightseeinginto the itinerary, most of their time goes tohelping others. In 2008, Linda helped build a South African community center for AIDSorphans. And more recently, the duo took abicycle trip from Pittsburgh to Lake Erie to

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Sweatin’ to the Suites KBAQ fans say metal isn’t the only soundtrack for pumping iron.

“Life has enoughstress in it. I don’tneed more frommy radio station.”

Ramon and Linda Nunez

Though classical music at the gym may seemunorthodox, the Nunezes insist no one com -plains. “What’s amazing is that people, forthe most part, respect our request,” says Ramon.“They put on that music for that hour weare there. Two seconds after 1:00 p.m., itgoes back to the other music.”


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local flavor

By RaeAnne Marsh

Photography by Emily Piraino

Cool SummerPlaces to get a brain freeze.

Sweet Republic:Conic Selection

Sweet Republic wants customersto linger over their cups of

coffee—savoring in peacefulcontemplation, or over the roughand tumble capitalism of a gameof Monopoly borrowed fromthe community shelf, or while

connected to the free Wi-Fi. But if coffee doesn’t appeal, there arealways 23 other flavors of icecream, dairy-free sorbet and fat-free yogurt to choose from. Andmore creative ways to enjoy itthan just in a cup.

Drop a couple of scoops intoone of the premium root beers for

To battle summer temps, we present ice cream,gelato and smoothies. Because the Valley aboundsin charming spots that serve comfort, cold.


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an old-fashioned summer favorite.Or stuff one into a waffle coneand cover it with browniechunks and maybe a marsh -mallow on top.

The ice cream, waffle cone,brownie and marshmallow areall made on the premises. WithKJZZ playing in the back room,co-owner Helen Yung appliesher Cordon Bleu training andpatisserie experience to createpremium quality products. Whyice cream? “I like the diversity,”she says. “There are classicflavors, and I can experiment.”

Her experiments yielddelicacies like a salted buttercaramel swirl ice cream and a basil lime sorbet. Yung hasapproximately 100 flavors in her repertoire to date.

She and co-owner JanWichayanuparp left the bankingworld after 9/11 to follow a dif -ferent dream, eventually bringingtheir plan to fruition where theysaw the best opportunity—metroPhoenix. They opened SweetRepublic on Memorial Day 2008.

The business is determinedlyeco-friendly, not only dedicatedto recycling but also tappinginto “green” decor advanceswith energy-efficient lights andfans, VOC-free paint and table -tops made of sorghum stalk (a

renewable plant resource with alook similar to bamboo).

And it should go without say -ing that they opt for all-naturalingredients with an emphasison local sources. What’s on tapthis summer? “May—peacheswill be coming around then,” says Yung, looking forward toseasonal flavors like peaches &cream and peach cobbler. “We’llgo pick our peaches at SchnepfFarms,” she smiles.

Sweet Republic9160 E. Shea Blvd., Scottsdale; 480-248-6979; sweetrepublic.com

Helen Yung (opposite) andJan Wichayanuparp (below,right) funded and foundedtheir ice cream shop them -selves. They’re using boththe old (a 1959 milk truckto deliver their ice creamto farmers’ markets) andthe new (the shop has aTwitter account) to makeSweet Republic a success.


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Angel Sweet:Gelato Heaven

Yes, there are toppings on themenu. But putting them on

Angel Sweet’s gelato is almostsacrilegious. The flavors andcreamy texture deserve to besavored as they give the tastebuds a raison d’être.

Gelato, aka Italian ice cream,is actually denser than ice creambecause less air is added whenmaking it. Credit its lighter tasteto having only a quarter of thefat. But as Angel Sweet makes it, it hasn’t lost an iota ofcreaminess—even in the non-cream-based fruit flavors.

Flavors span the spectrumfrom pure fruit (blueberry) tocandy (black licorice, one of thenewer creations), from favorites(the flan-like panna cotta) to the unexpected (“I have donejalapeño,” says manager Glenn Surkan).

The recipe and the bases forthe gelato come from Italy, andmany of the flavors have alsomade the trip. But Surkan givesthe recipe a twist, adding newtemptations to answer localtastes. Peanut butter and Oreoare two such non-traditionals.

It’s first come, first served atAngel Sweet, since the gelato ismade fresh on the premises inlimited quantities. But that’s notas risky as it sounds, since Surkanhas a firm handle on the antic -ipated daily demand for thevarious flavors. Still, they have alimited shelf life, which figuresinto the equation of how muchto make: “It’s a three-day cycle,”Surkan explains. After that,whatever’s left of a batch comes

out of the showcase and getsdonated to charity or goes home with a lucky employee.

Usually, two or three flavorsare offered at a time; maybemore at special times of theyear. There are seasonal flavors,too: pumpkin pie in the fall(which boasts crumbs of crust),peppermint in December,watermelon in the summer(made from fresh watermelon).And then there’s MCC (milkchocolate and caramel)—aperennial, but it only sees the light on weekends.

Angel Sweet1900 W. Chandler Blvd., Chandler; 480-722-2541937 N. Dobson Road, Mesa; 480-969-5227angelsweetgelato.com

A few things differentiate gelatofrom its American cousin, icecream. First, it contains lessbutterfat. Next, it’s served at a warmer temperature. Andfinally, it’s churned at a slowerspeed, so not as much air iswhipped into the mixture.


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Buzzberry:Givin’ It a Whirl

It looks like it’s been thereforever. An eclectic assortment

of couches, easy chairs and cock -tail stools randomly fills thesunny indoor patio studdedwith small tables. The seats andsurfaces seem scuffed fromyears of the kind of friendlyconfabs a community gatheringplace encourages.

What a difference a fewmonths make. Prior to Novem -ber 2009, this space was an eye -sore on the corner of a stripmall. So owner Kate Tobias,wanting a neighborly gatheringplace, created this been-there-forever ambience and enhancedthe comfortable feeling with free Wi-Fi and a dog-friendlyoutdoor patio.

“I believe in coffee, smoothiesand community,” she says, andshe tries to put “community”

into the menu as well as the meet -ing place. The coffee beans—ablend created for Buzzberry—arelocally roasted, and Tobias sourcesher dairy, bakery and produceitems locally, too.

Her smoothies, however, crossboundaries—the base comes fromCalifornia, and the taste takescustomers out of this world. TheScottsdale Sunrise, combiningpineapple, wild cherry and cran -berry, is a refreshing mouthful ofripe fruit. Strawberry, pineappleand mango are available straightup, as well as other flavors inpopular blends that includetangerine-orange and strawberry-banana. And keeping the fruit-only purees refrigerated meansless ice is required to make asmoothie—so it doesn’t turn into a watery slush.

Wanting to “offer somethingthat’s actually healthy,” Tobiasadmits there was a learning curve

as she ventured out of business-to-business marketing into therestaurant world and discovered“there are additives in foods wedon’t expect.” With no fat, no dairy,no dyes and no added sugars, hersmoothies have brought thanksfrom people with dietary issueslike gluten or lactose intolerance,she says.

And that’s part of the fun of the business: “Interacting with customers, getting feedbackand following through on thosesuggestions.”

As the name implies, Buzzberryoffers espresso drinks, too, as wellas teas and hot chocolate. There’salso a short list of made-to-ordersandwiches, including a tastybreakfast option of freshly scram -bled egg, cheese and bacon (orsausage) on a flaky croissant (orbagel, toast or tortilla). Buzzberry’smenu fits on one chalkboard, but it offers a lot of choice.

Whether they drinksmoothies or coffee,customers areencouraged to hangout at Buzzberry,enjoying the low-keyvibe and free Wi-Fi.

Buzzberry5959 N. Granite Reef Road, Scottsdale; 480-626-4797; geturbuzz.com

GetYourGreens

In a future issue of Wavelength, we’llbe looking at healthy places to eat.Whether you’ve found a great vege -tarian restaurant or a perfect farmers’market, we want to hear whereyou go to fortify yourself healthfully.Write us at [email protected].


“Listeners sound off on their favorite frozen treats.

UNLIMITED COFFEE/MONSTER’S GELATO741 E. Glendale Ave., Phoenix; 602-252-1200;unlimitedcoffee.com

When this coffee shop startedserving gelato, I was so excited tobe able to get such a treat right inmy neighborhood! Unlimited Coffeehas nice, large tables where you canspread out with an iced coffee andread the paper. It’s also open lateand we like to stop in after a weekendmovie to satisfy our sweet tooth!—Alicia Funkhouser

SUGAR BOWL4005 N. Scottsdale Road,Scottsdale; 480-946-0051;sugarbowlscottsdale.com

The Sugar Bowl has been alongtime favorite of ours. We used

THE DELI18914 E. San Tan Blvd., Queen Creek; 480-279-3546;thedeliqc.com

This cute little café seems like Napaby way of Queen Creek. It serves wonder - fully creative soups, salads and sand -wiches, but the real treat is the home -made ice cream made fresh every day.And I’m not talking chocolate or vanilla,but sophisticated, farm-fresh flavorslike red chile honey, cinnamon brownsugar, and lavender. It’s the perfect spotfor an unpreten tious, yet gourmet, dessert.—Lori Lattin

MARY COYLE5521 N. 7th Ave., Phoenix; 602-265-6266;marycoyle.net

I’d heard of this Phoenix fixture longbefore becoming a full-time resident inthe mid-1990s, and had made a pointof stopping in whenever I was out hereon business. I don’t think the decorhas changed since it was built in the1950s, and I love that as much as thesuper-rich ice cream (made on the

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premises). In addition to sundaes, realmalts and other specialty items, I canget a tasty soup, thick chili or a BLT. —Mark Richards

THAT’S AMORE7605 E. Pinnacle Peak Road,Scottsdale; 480-419-62808320 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale; 480-315-9970thatsamoregelato.com

In 2005, Italy’s loss was Scotts dale’sgain. When sisters Cristina and PaolaMarrazzo moved to Arizona, they intro -duced this area to some of the best gelatoI’ve tasted outside of Florence, Italy.That’s Amore’s two locations both fea -ture gleaming, curvy cases filled withdozens of flavors of frozen delicious nessthat are more intense than Americanice cream and yet lower in butterfat. Ilove their luscious red forest berry, therich and creamy hazelnut, the tropicalcoconut and, for one with a little heat, thechili pepper chocolate. The only pro blemwith That’s Amore is that it’s spoil edgelato for me most anywhere else.—Julie Zagars

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to go for special occasions, likewhen my daughter and I wouldattend Scottsdale’s Parada del Sol.We’d go to lunch after at the SugarBowl. It was always crowded andalways a fun dad-and-daughter day.Sometimes we, the family, would go to have lunch or dinner and asundae—or just a sundae. Theymake a killer meat-loaf sandwichand, of course, the hot fudgesundaes were, and are, magnificent.—James Metcalf


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