At the turn of the millennium, when Phoenix was exploding with new restaurants, shopping districts, cultural venues, and entertainment options, Arizona Corridors Magazine emerged as one of the Valley’s most ambitious lifestyle publications. It wasn’t just a magazine — it was a multimedia experience that blended glossy print, early internet innovation, and a deep partnership with one of Arizona’s first major dining websites, AZeats.com. At the same time, AZeats.com was becoming one of Arizona’s leading online dining guides. Rather than operating independently, the two organizations formed an early print‑and‑digital alliance that anticipated the multimedia marketing strategies that would become commonplace years later.
Today, only fragments of Corridors survive, but those pieces reveal a publication that captured the spirit of the Valley during a defining era.
A Magazine Built to Showcase “Everything About the Valley”
Arizona Corridors Magazine positioned itself boldly as “Everything About the Valley.” Its editorial reach was wide, covering:
This wasn’t a niche publication. Corridors was designed to be the Valley’s lifestyle compass — a curated guide to what was new, exciting, and worth exploring across Phoenix and its surrounding communities.
A Distinctive Look and Feel
By 2001, Corridors adopted a 9" x 11" format, giving it a premium, coffee‑table presence. The larger size allowed for:
The magazine’s design reflected Phoenix’s growing sophistication and its desire to present itself as a modern, vibrant metropolitan center.
The Publisher Behind the Vision
Rick McCartney was Publisher & Editor‑in‑Chief. Under his leadership, Corridors embraced:
The magazine was produced by Media Publisher’s Group, a Phoenix‑based company specializing in regional lifestyle content.
The Dining Guides: A Snapshot of Valley Food Culture
Corridors’ Fine Dining Guide remains one of its most vivid surviving features. Each listing included:
These guides captured the Valley’s dining scene during a formative era — a time when upscale restaurants, themed eateries, and chef‑driven concepts were beginning to flourish.
Arizona Corridors Magazine and AZeats.com
A Pioneering Partnership
One of the most forward‑thinking aspects of Corridors was its deep integration with AZeats.com, one of the Valley’s earliest and most influential online dining directories.
This partnership included:
A Special Corridors Section on AZeats.com
AZeats.com hosted a dedicated Corridors Magazine section, where readers could access:
Click Here to view the AZeats.com Corridors Section
This made Corridors one of the first Arizona magazines to extend its editorial content into a digital platform.
This was early digital marketing — years before such integrations became standard.
Long before magazines routinely directed readers to websites, Arizona Corridors was extending its print content into an online dining guide hosted by AZeats.com. Readers could move from an article in the magazine to restaurant information, dining guides, coupons, and promotions on the web—a remarkably forward-thinking concept for the early 2000s.
Web Scene Inc: The Digital Engine Behind the Partnership
The Arizona Corridors magazine’s online presence was developed by Web Scene Inc, the company behind AZeats.com and ColoradoEats.com
Web Scene Inc built the infrastructure that allowed Corridors to bridge print and digital, creating a unified ecosystem where magazine readers could immediately explore restaurants online.
This made Corridors a hybrid publication — part glossy magazine, part digital dining hub.
Why This Partnership Was Innovative
In an era when most print magazines simply ended the moment you closed the cover, Arizona Corridors Magazine broke the mold by continuing online through its partnership with AZeats.com, giving readers a place to keep exploring long after the last page. Restaurants gained a rare dual advantage — polished exposure in a glossy magazine and a searchable, always‑available web presence — while readers could move seamlessly from the printed dining guides to the interactive Corridors section on AZeats.com, extending the magazine’s influence into the emerging digital world in a way many people under 40 wouldn’t automatically recognize today.
Publication Timeline
Based on surviving evidence, Corridors was active during:
The magazine appears to have been published seasonally, with quarterly issues.
Why Arizona Corridors Magazine Still Matters
Though largely absent from modern archives, Arizona Corridors Magazine remains significant because it:
Corridors was more than a magazine—it was an early multimedia guide to life in the Valley, demonstrating how print and the emerging World Wide Web could work together years before digital publishing became the norm.
This page preserves surviving materials related to Arizona Corridors Magazine.
Included on this page:
These materials document one of Arizona's earliest examples of a print publication extending its content onto the World Wide Web.
