Category: Arizona
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In Tom Cruise’s Crosshairs
“A VERY MERRY UNAUTHORIZED CHILDREN’S SCIENTOLOGY PAGEANT”Stray Cat Theatre, Tempe Performing Arts CenterTempe, AZ Stray Cat Theatre delivers an unusual holiday show ever so cleverly. “A Very Merry Unauthorized Children’s Scientology Pageant” looks at the Church of Scientology and its wealthy founder, L. Ron Hubbard, as a funny and very satiric parody of the Nativity.…
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Monsoon Damage
The August 28 monsoon has turned out to be one of the worst in recent history, perhaps extended history. A condo building in downtown Phoenix lost its roof, several trees were uprooted, and a friend of mine caught a pic of a palm tree flattening a car near ASU. Add to this that the 100…
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Back in the (602)
When I left Maryland yesterday it was raining. Torrential rain during the tail end of rush hour is basically the equivalent of rush hour. I got Arden to the pet hotel without incident and made it to the airport on time, and then spent five hours inside the fuselage of a jet waiting to get…
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Things I Will Miss About the Desert
Sunset For two reasons: on the one hand, in days like these, sunset means a slight reprieve from the oppressive, scorching summer heat. Variously, it signals “time to swim,” “time to venture outdoors finally,” or even “a chance to take out the trash.” But Arizona does tend to make this worth one’s while, as the…
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Things I Will Miss About the Desert
Relative Speed Limits One strange result of living in the new “Old West” is that lawlessness is still relatively common, especially in terms of what the “law” considers, you know, important. Add to this the influx of Evil Knievel-like California drivers and you’ve got the automobile equivalent of a cattle stampede. The general (unofficial) rules…
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Things I Will Miss About the Desert
QuailHands down, quail are my favorite desert inhabitant. First of all, they are adorable, and second of all, once you see a little family of quail scurrying across the street, you can’t help but love the way they dash forward, their heads down, string of babies following behind the parents… It’s a delight to find…
Charles Jensen | Writer 