The 2015 NFL football season kicks off Thursday, September 10... which means you have exactly 197 hours from this writing to squeeze in another fantasy football league draft. Need a location? Consult this PM hand-selected list of the most FF-friendly bars and restaurants in the Valley. And for Pete's sake, don't take a quarterback in the first round. Only scrubs do that.
What's usually free, fun and potentially profitable? Trivia nights at local bars, of course. There are dozens of places around the Valley to flex your frontal lobes while downing libations. Here are our five favorites.
Saks Fifth Avenue has named Oscar-winning actress Julianne Moore the ambassador for their Key to the Cure Campaign, which locally supports cancer research at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
Going out to see a new movie is expensive these days. Unless you're hitting a matinee, tickets cost more than $9 each, and refreshments could easily run you another $10, even if you're only getting a large soda and popcorn. Thankfully, the last drive-in movie theater in Arizona, the West Wind Glendale Drive-In, offers a singular moviegoing experience on Thursday, August 27, and the price is right: It's free.
Looking for an affordable wedding dress? Have one you'd like to donate for a good cause?
A work trip to the remote mountain town of Crown King – and a quick stopover at the legendary Crown King Saloon – got us thinking about Arizona's great wealth of territorial saloons. And when we start thinking about things, well – being the quantification junkies we are – we have to rank them, too.
Two decades ago the average American hadn’t even heard of anime – much less watched it.
When Samyak Shertok heard the news about the April 2015 earthquake that rocked his home country of Nepal, he was “shattered.” Shertok, an Arizona State University alum, works as a visiting poet at the Mayo Clinic, where he writes poems for palliative care patients as “lyric medicine” through Arizona poet laureate Alberto Rios' Poesia del Sol program. Shertok decided to help his fellow Nepalis cope with the destruction in much the same way he's been helping the Mayo patients cope with their illnesses: the healing power of poetry.
