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'Check, Please! Arizona' Food Festival Returns

Don’t miss your chance to indulge in food from some of the Valley’s finest restaurants at Eight’s “Check, Please! Arizona” Festival. Tarbell’s, Flavors of Louisiana, Betty’s Nosh, Jewel of the Crown and many other top-rated eateries will be participating at this year’s event and visitors will even have a chance to audition for “Check, Please! Arizona” - one of PBS AZ’s most popular shows - while at the event!

The festival takes place at CityScape on Sunday, March 22, 2015, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pre-advance general admission tickets have already gone…

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Jesters, Fairies & Knights Prepare for Arizona Ren Fest

Open Saturdays and Sundays now through March 29, 2015, the 27th Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival offers a taste of 16th century fun to visitors young and old. Take a step back in history and enter a time when royals ruled, Shakespeare was at his peak and knights jousted for glory.

With a 13-stage theater, excellent Pleasure Feast menu, and all sorts of arts and crafts, there's a little something for everyone to enjoy at AZ Ren Fest. In the village marketplace, you can watch artisans in their workshops sculpting, glass blowing, candle making and creating all types of medieval-era…

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Watch Artists Paint, Sculpt & Sketch at AZ's Fine Art Expo

The Arizona Fine Art Expo fills a 44,000 square-foot space with artists' studios, which you can stroll in and out of at your leisure, watching sculptors fire clay, jewelers weld necklaces and much more. The expo also features one of the county's largest sculpture gardens, which is set in a beautiful area with waterfalls, a Koi pond and butterfly colony.

For ten weeks, the AZ Fine Art Expo will turn the southwest corner of Jomax and Scottsdale Roads into an interactive art extravaganza. Along with viewing completed artwork and watching masterpieces come to life before your eyes, the…

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The Nutcracker, Ice Skating & Other Weekend Events

There's only one way to create holiday memories that you and your family will cherish forever: Go out and make them! There's lots going on in the Phoenix area, especially now that temperatures are down, and we've got a list of events for you to check out, where you're sure to make memories that'll last a lifetime! 

All of the following events take place this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, or longer!

CitySkate at CityScape in Phoenix
This weekend, head over to CityScape to glide, twirl and Salchow on the Phoenix area's one-and-only real ice…

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Test Drive the 2015 F-150 Before Anyone Else & Enter Sweepstakes!

The all-new, redesigned 2015 Ford F-150 is on its way to Phoenix! Before shipping inventory to dealerships, Ford is taking the truck on tour and giving diehard fans a chance to take a spin in the redesigned F-150 before it's available to the public!

The "Drive the Future of Tough" tour is headed to Phoenix and when you sign up to attend, you can also enter for a chance to win an all-new 2015 F-150.

The event is scheduled to take place on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, at 12025 N. 32nd St. in the At Home lot. Attendees will…

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Fang-Tastic Frights: The Valley's Top 3 Haunted Houses

The Valley offers several opportunities for adrenaline junkies to enjoy fun frights! Spine-tingling thrills and horrifying supernatural spooks hide around every corner at these Haunted Houses. Visit soon - if you dare - before the Halloween season ends!

Rob Zombie's Great American Nightmare| 16601 N. Pima Rd., Scottsdale, AZ 85260
The Great American Nightmare features three twisted haunted house experiences, including The Devil's Rejects, the terror-filled Captain Spaulding's Clown School and The Lords of Salem, which is based on Rob Zombie's 2012 independent horror film! Scream after scream, as you run from murderous backcountry men, demented clowns and…

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Children's Book Launch with Crafts & Complimentary Water Park Access

If you have little ones or grandchildren, you may already know Conrad Storad, the award-winning author who lives right here in the Valley. His stories stay close to home, highlighting the southwest and Sonoran Desert's stunning array of animal and plant life. This month, he will launch his latest children's book, "Gator, Gator, Second Grader. (Classroom Pet...or Not?)" at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort located off 16th Street near Northern Avenue.

This free family event will feature a book reading and talk, Coyote Camp crafts and complimentary access to the resort's water park, which covers…

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Gerry Cullity's Alice in Wonderland Starting Aug. 22

Lewis Carroll's fantastical story, "Alice in Wonderland," will soon be brought to life in a unique stage play set to original music by Gerry Cullity. In this musical adaptation of Carroll's most well-known novel, when a curious young girl named Alice accidentally stumbles into a rabbit burrow, she discovers the zany world of Wonderland - a place full of madcap characters like the mischievous Chesire Cat, bloodthirsty and hard-to-please Queen of Hearts, and eccentric Mad Hatter.

Cullity's original music and lyrics guide us as Alice embarks on a wild adventure, which includes scenes from famous chapters of the…

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Bottled Water Drive Benefitting the Salvation Army

Join Camelback Ford in a bottled water drive benefitting the Salvation Army's Extreme Heat Hydration Program! We all know how hot it gets over the summer in Arizona and, unfortunately for those in need, a necessity as simple as water isn't always easy to come by. That's why we need your help to fill up a Ford F-150 with water bottles and in exchange we'll give you a half-off admission voucher to Big Surf Waterpark!*

To receive your voucher all you have to do is bring in a case of 24+ water bottles (16+ oz. per…

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Camelback Ford Proud to Sponsor TAPS Golf Tournament

The 24th Annual TAPS Memorial Golf Tournament was a hole-in-one and Camelback Ford was very proud to sponsor the event, which took place on April 12, 2014 at WIGWAM Resort in Litchfield Park, Arizona. The yearly competition honors the memory of police officers lost in the line of duty and raises money that is put toward a college tuition reimbursement fund for survivors of deceased law enforcement officers.

At this year's event, participants got to play with and against NFL legends like Larry Walton, former wide receiver for the Detroit Lions; Patrick Hunter, former cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks…

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