Spring Break 2020 was a real turning point. The pandemic shut down schools and life as we knew it. A year later, there’s cautious optimism that things might soon be back to normal. But for many, spring break still looks different. Knowing that, husband-and-wife team, and Valley-based artists, Roy Wasson Valle and Koryn Woodward Wasson created a camp experience that exists mostly in the mind.

After saving a lot of money, in June 2019, Shannon Steward finally opened her shop, The Vintage Arizona. Less than a year later, she was forced to temporarily close because of the pandemic. But despite masks and distancing requirements, she’s figured out ways to connect with her customers, and the items she’s selling.

Many U.S. states have legalized the consumption, growth and trade of marijuana. And in Mexico, a federal law might turn the country into the largest market and producer of cannabis.

Ronald Rael is an architect and artist whose work draws attention to the U.S.-Mexico border. In 2019, he built a set of teeter-totters that hung in the balance on the border wall. He’s recently launched another project just across the border from Arizona in Nogales, Sonora.