Growing up in the East Valley in the '90s, downtown Mesa was a destination spot — for sheet music and clarinet reeds. All the junior high band kids knew about Milano Music, one of the oldest music ...

It’s Americana on a fluted Styrofoam plate. A hand-pounded slab of pork loin is thickly encased in batter and deep-fried until it takes on the burnished hue of a soft pretzel—the tenderized meat ...