![]() ![]() Best Back-Stab Len Sherman's Self-Serving Denunciation of Sheriff Joe.Best Prick The Pin Incident at the State Capitol.Best Profile in Courage Jeff Flake's No Fly, No Buy Bill.Best Politician State Representative Debbie McCune Davis.Best Local Boy Makes Good On Screen Travis Mills.Best Performance as a Talking Mirror Terre Steed, Nearly Naked Theatre's Wonderland Wives.Best Play, Non-Equity Stray Cat Theatre Stupid Fucking Bird.Best Play, Equity Arizona Theatre Company Of Mice and Men.Best Zen Experience The Japanese Friendship Garden.Best Trip to Outer Space The Firefly Room at Phoenix Art Museum.Best Place to Learn About Native Southwestern Culture Heard Museum.Best First Friday Hangout Fifth Street Between Roosevelt and Garfield streets.Best Hope for the Phoenix Arts Scene the Gallery.Best Student Gallery Northlight Gallery.Best Arts Festival Open Studios Grant Street.Best Comedy Festival Bird City Comedy Festival.Best Film Festival Phoenix Film Festival. ![]() Best Luxury Movie Theater Harkins Camelview.Best Budget Movie Theater Pollack Tempe Cinemas.Best Place to Office The Warehouse District.Best Bathroom Bill Dambrova's Goat Heart Studio.Best Revitalization Beth Hebrew Synagogue.Best Up-and-Coming Neighborhood Coronado.Best Neighborhood Windsor Square Historic District.Best Home Tour Modern Phoenix Home Tour.Best Temporary Public Art Decoys by Jeffrey DaCosta.Best Christmas Lights Comstock Drive Christmas Lights.Best Local Christmas Card Gone Viral Slade Family Little House Giveaway.Best Local to Follow on Instagram Donjay Best Selfie ASU Sorority Girls at Chase Field.Best Local to Follow on Snapchat New Darlings.Best Exoneration Leslie Allen Merritt Jr.Best Natural Disaster November 1 Earthquakes in Black Canyon City.Best Political Stunt The Satanic Invocation at the Phoenix City Council.Best Traffic Jam Donald Trump Protest at Fountain Park.Your abuela (grandmother) would have wanted you to go for it. Go ahead, get that fancy skull-print handbag or wallet. Pieces of colorful tissue paper called papel picado, perforated to create Day of the Dead designs, hang suspended from the ceiling - proving that shopping, as you've long insisted, is actually an essential life-affirming act. Many are made by local artists, and there's a good chance you'll get to meet and talk with at least one local artist while you're there. Walls, bins, and shelves at La Tiendita (meaning "the little shop") inside the Arizona Latino Arts and Cultural Center are filled year-round with jewelry, magnets, masks, home decor, fashion accessories, and crafts channeling Day of the Dead and other Mexican traditions. And quite a few Phoenicians have embraced them, too, sporting iconic sugar-skull images on everything from bolo ties to hipster socks. Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) might roll around only once a year, but the skulls, monarch butterflies, and other motifs meant to celebrate ancestors who've died are a part of everyday life in Mexican culture.
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