The latest episode of BENEATH SUPERSTITION traces the afterlives of Arizona’s forgotten sports.The Lost Dutchman's Baseball Association, the annual Apache Junction donkey derby, racing greyhounds, decaying drag strips, and exploded pigeons. From vanished ballfields to ruined race tracks, this episode follows the remains of spectacle in the Valley, where entertainment was built in the desert and returned to the dirt. Along the way, shoutouts to the Phoenix Mercury, America's Funnyman Neil Hamburger (Gregg Turkington), and the Loyal Order of the Moose.
The video version is on YouTube, the audio version at Apple Podcasts.
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 logo by Ace My new essay and storytelling podcast from beneath the Superstition Mountains explores personal narratives within the weird landscapes of liminal urban and desert spaces. BENEATH SUPERSTITION launches today with two episodes.The first episode is an introduction to the program and its host, followed by a look upward at the palm trees over Phoenix. Part manifesto, part personal essay, and part historical account, this episode traces how the palm became critical infrastructure in the Valley—and what that says about climate change (and, probably, the end of the world). A harbinger of the explorations to come. The second episode outlines the history of Phoenix’s warm-winter tourism, where mineral baths and taxidermy museums were one and the same, and where tiki culture flourished in the fallout of the atom bomb—until the desert’s darker realities prevailed. From island-inspired motor courts to hotel murders, this episode examines the tension between manufacturing paradise and keeping downtown rough. Life, leisure, and dying in the Valley of the Sun. The video version is on YouTube, the audio version at Apple Podcasts.  the first palm tree in Phoenix, Monroe St  palm trees in Arcadia neighborhood  Bikini Lounge, Grand Ave  Kon Tiki Hotel, Van Buren |
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