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Halloween 2016 is all about keeping up with the culture! Between music and new television shows and games, there are so many fashionable ways to trick or treat this year.

It’s that wonderful time of year again—when we voluntarily choose to scare the living daylights out of ourselves by running from maniacal serial killers and flesh-eating demons amidst haunted houses and hellscapes. From zombie apocalypses to slaughter houses full of deranged psychopaths to cursed corn mazes, get into the spooky spirit of Halloween with these haunted houses throughout Arizona.  

Fear Farm, 2209 N. 99th Ave., Phoenix

With 30 acres of land and five indoor/outdoor attractions, Fear Farm boasts being...

In the lobby of Roadhouse Cinemas in Scottsdale, director Phillip Penza sits at a long table, littered with half-full cups and half-eaten nachos, with three women. While they are manicured in business-professional attire, Penza sports a vest with several pockets and a baseball cap with the title of his previous movie, My Name is Nobody, a film based off a 70-some-odd page autobiographical account of his bloody childhood, of love found and lost, and the will to be somebody.

Today, he’s planning the premiere of his newest film, Movie Madness—the story of an assassin hired to murder a...

I learned a long time ago to plan my day with the most important things first (I call important things walnuts) and sprinkle the less important things around them (like rice). Imagine if you have a jar, and you put the large walnuts in and pour the rice around it. A good visual for how I get things done. I learned this many years ago when I was a realtor in Texas. Once I learned I could never get everything done in one day, my life was much easier. Time is the one thing we wish we could have more of, so here’s a sample day in my everyday life ….

6:05 a.m. I wake up really well rested, which is very...