Saturday

4) 9 a.m. Breakfast bagels

Skeptics may abound, but there are good bagels in the desert thanks to the 18-month-old New Wave Market, a sunny bakery and cafe in shop-filled Old Town Scottsdale. Boiled and baked in-house daily, the chewy bagels come solo ($2 each) or, better yet, as sandwiches. Try the toasty black-and-white sesame bagel with heirloom tomatoes, avocado and a subtle lick of chili ($7.50), along with a rich cup of local Peixoto coffee ($2.50) for a filling Saturday starter. Wait for your order while browsing the market for local jams, chocolate and gifts.

5) 10 a.m. Frontier art

Scottsdale’s motto is “The West’s Most Western Town.” That’s debatable, but in its defense is the Western Spirit: Scottsdale’s Museum of the West in Old Town (admission $15). The 43,000-square-foot museum offers an encyclopedia of Western art, from a rare display of Hopi ceramics to lifelike bronze statues of Native Americans by John Coleman. A permanent exhibition on the upper level makes the case for artists as vital chroniclers of Western exploration and expansion. Then head over to the nearby Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, or SMOCA (admission $10). The intimate museum stages thought-provoking shows — including a retrospective on the last 20 years of video art (through April 28) — and houses a permanent Skyspace, a circular outdoor room with a rooftop opening framing the sky, by James Turrell.