If you aren’t sure what you’d like to do at the festival there is The Pleasure Feast package which includes:A festival admission ticket valued at $20:
6 course meal
2 hours of entertainmentSelection of drinksSpecial Edition gobletCommemorative medallion
If you have young children, you may not want them to attend this feast as there may be suggestive or risqué humor/language. The Arizona Renaissance Festival is located at 12601 Highway 60 in Apache Junction. For more information visit: www.royalfaires.com/arizona/
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by Joe Szabo, Szabo Group
Step back in time to the days of kings, jousting and celebration with the Arizona Renaissance Festival. This year’s festivities may be over, but here are the details for 2010. The festival is open every Saturday and Sunday February 6-March 28, 2010. They are also open on the Monday of Presidents’ day as well. Hours are 10 am-6 pm, regardless of weather. This event is hailed as one of the largest in the country because it’s like being at five festivals that are combined into one! You can experience twelve stages featuring continuous live entertainment. Enjoy comedy, swordplay, dancing with gypsies or mingle with the King & Queen if you want to. There is a circus as well as an arts and crafts fair. A jousting tournament takes places three times each day. And remember, there’s plenty of food too! Don’t miss the chance to browse the marketplace, where over 200 vendors offer hand-made items such as wooden and steel swords and shields, pewter goblets, copper sculptures, pillows and more! It’s an experience as skills such as glassblowing, weaving, blacksmithing, pottery and more are displayed right before your eyes!
If you aren’t sure what you’d like to do at the festival there is The Pleasure Feast package which includes:A festival admission ticket valued at $20:
6 course meal
2 hours of entertainmentSelection of drinksSpecial Edition gobletCommemorative medallion
If you have young children, you may not want them to attend this feast as there may be suggestive or risqué humor/language. The Arizona Renaissance Festival is located at 12601 Highway 60 in Apache Junction. For more information visit: www.royalfaires.com/arizona/
The Szabo Group offers first class real estate services to clients in the Scottsdale Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Award winning Realtors and Re/MAX top producers, The Szabo group delivers experience, knowledge, dedication and proven results. Contact Joe Szabo at 480.688.2020 or visit www.scottsdalerealestateteam.com
If you aren’t sure what you’d like to do at the festival there is The Pleasure Feast package which includes:A festival admission ticket valued at $20:
6 course meal
2 hours of entertainmentSelection of drinksSpecial Edition gobletCommemorative medallion
If you have young children, you may not want them to attend this feast as there may be suggestive or risqué humor/language. The Arizona Renaissance Festival is located at 12601 Highway 60 in Apache Junction. For more information visit: www.royalfaires.com/arizona/
The Szabo Group offers first class real estate services to clients in the Scottsdale Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Award winning Realtors and Re/MAX top producers, The Szabo group delivers experience, knowledge, dedication and proven results. Contact Joe Szabo at 480.688.2020 or visit www.scottsdalerealestateteam.com
Some exhibits you might want to visit include:
All About You exhibit explores learning and remembering as well as how our bodies move.
Psychology explores preferences of personal space as well as features The Echo Chamber where you can discover how those with blindness figure out where they are.
Get Charged Up lets you experience what it’s like to lie on a bed of nails. You can also see how a prism splits white light into the colors of the rainbow and more!
Robots: The Interactive Exhibition opens September 27, 2009 and features characters from the animated film Robots.
The science center also offers family camp-ins, which are $20 for one parent and child. Each additional child is $5. Also, it is recommended for younger children, those ages 6-10. Some upcoming classes are:
Oct. 10: It’s a Small World – Learn about nanotechnology and how you are impacted.
Oct. 24: Our Colorful World – Learn about light and color and its properties.
Nov. 7: Recipe for Weather – Learn about tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards and more.
Nov. 21: It’s Elementary, Dear Watson – Learn about scientific method and how it can be used to solve a problem. Your child will be able to observe, predict, conduct an experiment, collect data and present their conclusions.
Dec. 5: It’s About Time!–Learn about the world of time and time zones. Your child will be able to create a way to measure time without using a clock.
The Arizona Science Center is located at 600 E Washington Street in Phoenix. For more information visit: 
Some of the current exhibits and events include:
July 11, 2009-October 18, 2009 – 
In the We Are! Arizona’s First People exhibit, be sure to check out the mural titled “Fear of a Red Planet” which showcases scenes from American Indian history that have had an impact on the lives of American Indian people living in the Southwest.
For kids, there are three galleries which feature hands-on take-home activities and interactive displays. They can make a Yaqui-inspired paper flower or bandolier bag.
Claiming to provide moving stories is the Remembering Our Indian School Days: The Boarding School Experience.
The Heard Museum shop buys directly from hundreds of American Indian artists and offers jewelry, pottery, katsina dolls and more. It also features a great selection of books by and about American Indians.
Be sure to grab a meal or snack at The Café. The food is has a Southwest-inspired flavor to it.
The Heard Museum is located at 2301 N Central Avenue in Phoenix. For more information visit: 
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Calling all race fans! Phoenix International Raceway has some offerings for fan experiences including the Budweiswer Roll Bar, which features driver appearances during races and live music. Check the website listed below for more information.
The SPEED Cantina, which is located just outside Turn 2, features a bar and grill and live entertainment as well.
Some upcoming events include:
November 15-17, 2009- NASCAR’s Checker O’Reilly Auto Parts 500 – the last race of the year. Jimmie Johnson will be driving For ticket information and event schedule, visit 
Some other upcoming events include:
Biergarten – September 25, 2009 – 7-10 PM
Cost: $70 for members; $75 for general public
Enjoy great beer, the great atmosphere of the gardens, and great music provided by four different groups.
Las Noches de las Luminarias – December 3-30, 2009
Member tickets are on sale now and are $20 for adults and $10 for children. Tickets for the general public go on sale October 1st and are $25 for adults and $12.50 for children. Thousands of hand-lit lights cast a glow on all of the garden’s featured plants. Enjoy this special event with your whole family! For more information on this event visit 
Fashion Square Mall – Located at Camelback Rd. and Scottsdale Rd. This mall is 2 million square feet of stores, dining and entertainment Some of the 225 stores include Abercrombie & Fitch, Bath & Body Works, Barney’s New York (opening this fall), Build-A-Bear Workshop, as well as high-end stores including Cartier, kate spade, Louis Vuitton and Tiffany & Co.. There are about 20 places available for snacks or other food as well. For more information visit: 
Craftsman Court to host 1st annual October Festival – October, 10, 2009 – KAMEN Entertainment, Ear Candy Non-Profit Organization and The Edge 103.9 radio station are joining forces to host Scottsdale’s Craftsman Court 1st annual October Festival (10-10-09).
Ear Candy is a 501(c)(3) Non-profit devoted to creating, supporting and sustaining music programs for kids (
The Arizona Institute for Breast Health is proud to announce a unique opportunity for the Valley to honor all those touched by breast cancer. From August 1st through October 31st, individuals will have the opportunity to sponsor pink light bulbs for $25 each in recognition of those affected by breast cancer.
The pink lights will be placed on the Canal Bridge, which links the Scottsdale Waterfront to the Southbridge District in downtown Scottsdale and will be illuminated on October 1st at the annual lighting ceremony, The Pink Light District . These Pink Honor Lights will glow throughout October in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Proceeds generated from this initiative will benefit the Arizona Institute for Breast Health, a local non-profit organization that provides a second opinion for treatment options to women that have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer, completely free of charge. These second opinions are offered through a multi-disciplinary panel of Breast Cancer Specialists and each patient that is seen through the program is supported and lovingly guided by a patient advocate, a breast cancer survivor herself. To sponsor your lights, please visit their web site, 
