Scottsdale produced a six-pack of videos to show off its newly revitalized downtown in hopes of persuading longtime residents to revisit the city’s commercial core.

Two Scottsdale-area resorts snagged four stars each in Mobil Travel Guides ratings of the top hotel spas in North America.

Art — real art, not the posters or canvas prints sold in big box stores — will be easy to come by Sunday in Mesa.

Kids and teens in Queen Creek are becoming more aware of the dangers of drugs through a new program called MethSmart.

No local spas provide fivestar service, according to Mobil Travel Guides, but six Arizona properties, five of them in the Scottsdale area, earned four sparklers.

"Tower Heist" is an ensemble, and a strong one at that, led by Ben Stiller, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck and Tea Leoni. But Brett Ratner's blast of an action comedy truly brings out the best in Eddie Murphy, something many of us may have forgotten even existed.

"Tower Heist" is an ensemble, and a strong one at that, led by Ben Stiller, Alan Alda, Matthew Broderick, Casey Affleck and Tea Leoni. But Brett Ratner's blast of an action comedy truly brings out the best in Eddie Murphy, something many of us may have forgotten even existed.

Cutesy little gimmicks and devices are plentiful in "Beginners." A Jack Russell terrier speaks in subtitled English, for example. A man and a woman on a giddy date skate out of a roller rink and back to the carpeted hallways of a downtown Los Angeles hotel. And fast-paced, narrated photo montages help illustrate a childhood, and a marriage, and a life.

After performing about 80 three-and-a-half-hour shows, including a three-month European leg on Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’s Wrecking Ball Tour during the past year, Nils Lofgren is getting ready to crash at home and have a break from what he describes as the “greatest musical job in the world.”

Jackie Robinson was the ideal class act to break the barrier and become the first black player in Major League Baseball.

Check the goal post up ahead … you’re about to enter The Hockey Twilight Zone. If you missed the incredible goal by Columbus’ Rick Nash on Thursday night, get thee to YouTube immediately.

Since the first time Ty Pennington — the buff former carpenter on HGTV’s “Trading Spaces” and now host of ABC’s “Extreme Home Makeover” — showed off his jigsaw skills, I was hooked. Bob Vila may have started the craze in the ’80s, but today’s plethora of home improvement shows are no “This Old House.”