East Valley Tribune - EV Life

Harter: Churchill's proves British food can be tasty

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:05:56 -0700

Great Britain doesn’t enjoy the culinary reputation of some fellow European countries, most notably France, Italy and, increasingly nowadays, Spain. But don’t think of the homeland of William Shakespeare and Isaac Newton as a gastronomical wasteland. Many of its traditional dishes are, in fact, quite tasty.

Renovated Liberty Market opens Tuesday in downtown Gilbert

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:49:59 -0700

Joe Johnston points to Liberty Market’s exposed ceiling, where the original rough-hewn rafters from the 1930s connect to the “new” rafters from a 1950s expansion of the downtown Gilbert building.

McCormick & Schmick's opens in Scottsdale

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:34:54 -0700

The East Valley reels in another upscale seafood restaurant when McCormick & Schmick’s opens at 4 p.m. today in the former Thaifoon building on the southeast corner of Scottsdale and Doubletree Ranch roads in Scottsdale.

Sauce opens in Chandler's Downtown Ocotillo

Mon, 13 Oct 2008 12:33:56 -0700

Sam Fox makes his Chandler debut today with the opening of fast-casual Italian restaurant Sauce in Downtown Ocotillo, a new development on the southwest corner of Dobson and Queen Creek roads.

Our Time: Has the economy busted the boomers?

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:25:40 -0700

I want to believe we can make a difference in the world.

Tour de Fat in Tempe celebrates beer, bicycles

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:58:49 -0700

The connection between bicycling and a Belgian-style beer brewery may not be an obvious one. But that is what Tour de Fat is all about.

The Guy Side: Things to do while my wife is away

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:20:45 -0700

• Drop wife off at airport

Campers get one free night at a park

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:17:08 -0700

Maricopa County parks are giving campers a chance to save money and time this fall. Six of the metro-fringing Sonoran Desert parks are offering a buy-one, get-one-free deal on camping through early November.

The Rat Pack lives, sings again in touring show

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 17:21:51 -0700

"The Rat Pack - Live at the Sands" is a touring tribute show to famed Rat Packers Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin, with three actors portraying the entertainment icons in their prime.

Outhier: Scottsdale has notable happy hours every day of the week

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:09:44 -0700

Conceived by U.S. Navy sailors, perfected by us land-lubbing civilians, the American tradition of happy hour is alive and well here in the Valley - so alive, in fact, that the mere prospect of half-price beers and buffalo wings seems kind of banal, considering the sheer variety of happy hour options.

Pizza comes with happy pipes at the Organ Stop

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:50:54 -0700

It's the dancing cats that put the evening over the top.

Mormon stake center starts to rebuild

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 17:33:33 -0700

About 1,500 members, in nine Mesa wards of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, will wait another year before they can return to church work and worship on their campus at 1430 N. Grand, just across the north fence of Mesa Cemetery and east of Country Club Drive.

Halloween Events in the Valley

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:50:09 -0700

Arizona’s Original Scream Park: This 10-acre park, now in its 11th year, features four haunted attractions — Alices’s House of Nightmares, 3-D Fear Factory, Castle of Darkness and Goldminer’s Revenge. 8823 E. McDowell Road, Scottsdale. $16-$25. (480) 444-2590.

The early-costume crowd

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:35:49 -0700

Contrary to popular belief, little kids and drag queens aren't the only people who love putting on crazy costumes for no particular reason. Verily, there is a nation of us who run 10-kilometer races in "Borat"-style banana hammocks and throw dictator-themed cocktail parties. Well, maybe not "us" literally, but we identify strongly with the beautiful freaks who do.

Friday's a Nightmare on Mesa's Main

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:46:49 -0700

If one Halloween per year just isn't enough, Mesa has good news: The city's downtown merchants are manufacturing a mini-Halloween a full 21 days before the real deal arrives; Nightmare on Main Street is Friday.

Campers get one free night at a park

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:18:31 -0700

Maricopa County parks are giving campers a chance to save money and time this fall.

Time adds age, authority to Dennis Quaid's resume

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:21:08 -0700

Despite the bomb dropped by his ex-wife earlier in the day, Dennis Quaid greets a visitor wearing his familiar ear-to-ear grin. No shrapnel wounds, no obvious trauma.

'City of Ember' presents dystopia for a tween audience

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:48:49 -0700

Heads up, all you tweens out there in Let's Go to the Moviesland. Today's word is "dystopia," as in the opposite of "utopia," often used to describe works of science fiction that depict an Earth that has been polluted ("Blade Runner"), globally warmed ("Waterworld"), or Big Brother'd ("1984") into slavery.

'Express' trudges downfield in a nice, if plodding, way

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 17:35:14 -0700

Ernie Davis was the first African-American to win football's Heisman Trophy. The passage of time and the brevity of his career and life have made him a forgotten figure, something the workmanlike football drama "The Express" aims to change. But it's a movie that rarely strays from its sports-drama formula, something that robs the history and the tragic trajectory of the man's story of its heart.

It's scary how easy it is to make a costume

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:53:20 -0700

A glue gun, fabric, odds and ends plus a great imagination are all Tracy Bohren needs to create a photoworthy Halloween costume. The Clovis, Calif., resident has been making homemade costumes for years.

Ballet Arizona kicks up its heels at park performances for free

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:58:04 -0700

Ballet, as an art form, will always have to deal with a fair number of negative stereotypes. "It's boring." "It's girly." "It's for far stuffier folks than myself."