An elementary school district built one of Phoenix's best theatres, and the voters paid for it on purpose. The Madison Center for the Arts at 5601 North 16th Street opened in 2018, owned and operated by the Madison Elementary School District as a shared home for student performances and professional touring shows. The building is unapologetically grand for its ownership: a 904-seat state-of-the-art auditorium, an extensive veranda, and a lobby with a 40-foot ceiling that hosts galas, weddings a.....

Where the Mason Jar once stood, the Rebel Lounge now carries on a rock-and-roll tradition that has run through the same building on Indian School Road for decades. The Mason Jar opened on the site in 1979 and became one of central Phoenix's premier clubs, a quintessential 1980s rock room that hosted acts on their way to stardom, from Rage Against the Machine, Tool and Jane's Addiction to Green Day, Guns N' Roses and Nirvana, and later the Black Keys, Fall Out Boy and Jimmy Eat World. After the .....

Nirvana, Tool and Pearl Jam played this address when it was the Mason Jar; the room that replaced it was named America's best small venue. The Rebel Lounge at 2303 East Indian School Road in Phoenix opened on May 20, 2015, when promoter Stephen "Psyko Steve" Chilton and partner Chuckie Duff bought the fabled rock bar's building and rebuilt it from the studs. The predecessor's legend loomed over the project: the Mason Jar ran from 1979 to 2004 as Phoenix's infamous metal and hard rock haven, hos.....