With its flagship piece — the Mesa Arts Center — in place the arts and performance scenes in Arizona’s third-largest city have been on the receiving end of some international acclaim of late.

George Ferrin’s Guest Commentary “Socialism suffocates prosperity” in the Sept. 5 Ahwatukee Foothills News contains so much truth and insight into the economy, that it is almost unconceivable that the current administration is able to ignore the truth and can get away with their current shenanigans. Their unstated agenda of controlling our lives from the womb to the grave is just one more contributing factor to the fall of this great country.

An artist's workspace is as personal as the artwork.

Lina Darnell’s daily routine is like that of most stay-at-home moms, taking care of the kids, getting lunches made, and keeping up the home.

Gangplank, the collaborate workplace founded in downtown Chandler, will open a popup workspace this summer at Arizona State University’s downtown Phoenix campus. Gangplank will operate the space from early June to mid-August within the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communications.

The 1 million annual visitors to Mesa’s libraries will soon have more time to search for the right book or conduct online research thanks to an improving economy.

When Tommy Filler moved from one dust bowl town to another as an engineer in 1982, he was an analog man living in a world of dials and gauges that covered the cockpits of helicopters used by the military during the threat against the Soviet Union.

When Tommy Filler moved from one dust bowl town to another as an engineer in 1982, he was an analog man living in a world of dials and gauges that covered the cockpits of helicopters used by the military during the threat against the Soviet Union.

Queen Creek’s business incubator, CQ Inc., will hold a workshop March 12 for software engineers and small business owners to understand the dynamics of doing business in today’s ever-changing world. The Hacking Innovation workshop will be led by Derek Neighbors, the co-founder of Gangplank, the collaborative workspace in downtown Chandler. He is also a partner at Integrum Technologies, a consulting services firm that helps companies build teams to compete in the new economy. The workshop is designed for software engineers, software developers, gamers and small business owners.

The geek in all of us gets a pass to go a little crazy starting tomorrow, when the Arizona SciTech Festival kicks off at Arizona Science Center.

The geek in all of us gets a pass to go a little crazy starting tomorrow, when the Arizona SciTech Festival kicks off at Arizona Science Center.

The geek in all of us gets a pass to go a little crazy starting tomorrow, when the Arizona SciTech Festival kicks off at Arizona Science Center.

"I never realized how little life sticks to your plans."

Before the recession, Gregg Lahti wrote the business plan for his start-up on a napkin and got an investor to fork over $8 million.

Take a basket full of challenging ingredients, a difficult workspace and time on the clock, and you’ve got Food Network’s “Chopped.” Add cowboy boots, campfires and wagons, and you’ve got the Chandler Chuck Wagon Cook-off — something akin to an Old West version of the TV cooking contest.

Take a basket full of challenging ingredients, a difficult workspace and time on the clock, and you’ve got Food Network’s “Chopped.” Add cowboy boots, campfires and wagons, and you’ve got the Chandler Chuck Wagon Cook-off — something akin to an Old West version of the TV cooking contest.

Take a basket full of challenging ingredients, a difficult workspace and time on the clock, and you’ve got Food Network’s “Chopped.” Add cowboy boots, campfires and wagons, and you’ve got the Chandler Chuck Wagon Cook-off — something akin to an Old West version of the TV cooking contest.

CARRBORO, N.C. - When Brian Russell heard that some folks in Raleigh were considering opening a business similar to the one he operates in Carrboro, N.C., he had some advice for them.

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Gangplank, the coworking business and technology incubator in downtown Chandler, is the only Arizona organization to appear on Entrepreneur magazine’s list of “100 Brilliant Companies.”

Shelby Bryant admits she wasn't thrilled to learn she would be one of the guinea pigs testing a new open office environment for pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline near Raleigh, N.C.

Joanne Girmonde is reinventing herself through art.

The door to Adam Coe’s workspace reads “Evil Laboratory” and has a picture of a mad scientist looking at beakers.