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Candy Addict dress? Couture challenge puts Mill Ave. on the runway

Local designers strut their stuff Thursday at Girls’ Night Out in Tempe for the MAD Couture Challenge — a competition requiring designers to incorporate material fr...

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MAD Couture Challenge

'La Cage' onstage at ASU Gammage

Broadway star Christopher Sieber dons a wig, heels and corset as the main attraction of a drag club in the revival of the musical “La Cage Aux Folles.”

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'La Cage Aux Folles'

Experience rustic cookout during Friday Night Franks

The small orange dot of a campfire burning Friday night in the desert above the East Valley won’t look like much from down here, if it’s visible at all. But from up...

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Fort McDowell Adventures

Pandora Festival opens up new works by women playwrights

The dilemma of losing one’s luggage is something we all hope will never happen. For some travelers, though, it becomes an unfortunate reality. But have you ever tho...

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Bad Travel

Discover monthly treasure of Sweet Salvage

There’s no denying that girls love anything that shimmers, sparkles or glistens. For a pair of Valley gals though, the real fun is finding diamonds in the rough and...

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Sweet Salvage

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    3 to try: Margaritas

    As the weather warms up and the days get longer, head to these spots for mouth-watering margaritas. Serrano Mango Margarita at Canteen Modern Tequila Bar 640 S. Mill Avenue, Tempe. (480) 773-7135 or http://www.canteentequilabar.com/ With a name like Canteen Modern Tequila Bar, you better know your tequila. And at this trendy spot on Mill Avenue, they certainly do. The Serrano Mango Margarita, which earned the East Valley Tribune’s 2011 Best of East Valley Best Margarita award, is infused with blue agave blanco tequila, serrano peppers, mango juice, fresh-squeezed lime juice and a half-salted rim. If spicy isn’t your thing, there are plenty of other options on the menu, including the organic Paloma margarita. Frozen Chambord Margarita at Z’Tejas

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    After 35 years, Childsplay still going strong

    Take it one show at a time and give children the opportunity to see excellent theater. It’s a philosophy that David Saar has implemented for the past 35 years. With the way things have evolved over that time frame, that philosophy will not need to change any time soon. Saar founded Childsplay in 1977, just to “make a new play.” He recruited a crew and they started from scratch. That first production was called “Will Today Be Yesterday Tomorrow,” and it was a musical revue about time. Back then Saar had no idea where his concept would take him. The drama specialist for Mesa School District, a position created just for him, Saar would not make it his full-time job for several years after the first production. “We just gathered people to make a new play and demand caused it to grow,” he said. “When we performed it people started to ask us to come here or there, so we did that for a year. We devised another couple of pieces and about three years in, discovered why God created playwrights and it just slowly grew.” Childsplay will celebrate its 35th anniversary with a party beginning at 6 p.m. Friday at the Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Parkway.

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    3 to try: Restaurant patios

    Savor patio season by dining al fresco in the East Valley House of Tricks 114 E. Seventh St., Tempe. (480) 968-1114 or http://houseoftricks.com There’s a reason this 25-year-old Tempe mainstay earned the Tribune’s 2011 Best of East Valley award for “Best Patio”: Its outdoor space remains the standard by which to compare all others. An idyllic spot made lush with daisies, geraniums, ferns and grapevine-covered arbors, Tricks’ spacious patio connects two historic bungalows that house the restaurant’s kitchen and dining rooms. Tables are accented with fresh flowers or candles, and the patio sports twinkly lights, a fountain, a fire pit, a goldfish pond, the occasional lounging feline, and mature trees that make you feel like you’ve stumbled upon an oasis in the desert.

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