AZ Vibe – The Ultimate Phoenix Entertainment Resource

So let’s say you’re in the mood for a movie but you really don’t want to sit inside of the house on such a warm evening.  What do you do?  Well, the Westgate City Center has the first annual WaterDance Film Festival going on right now every Friday night through the end of June.  The event is free and all you need to do is bring your chairs and get ready for a great time!

The Schedule of Movies is as follows:

• April 24 – Blue Chips
• May 1 – Beach Month Kicks off with Jaws
• May 15 – Jimmy Buffett Live From Wrigley Field
• May 22 – 50 First Dates
• May 29 – Grease
• June 5 – The Month of June is Summer Blockbusters – Ir on Man
• June 12 – Transformers
• June 19 – Spider-Man
• June 26 – Superman Returns

For More information, please refer to the following site:

http://www.westgateaz.com/mg.php

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=110117270783108833567.0004556aa2b0020fe77a7&z=19

Popularity: 20% [?]

Ok this is the first of my reviews of Gluten Free places to eat around the Valley.  If you have read the ‘How it works’ page on this site you will have noticed that I am not going to do restauraunt reviews as I’m allergic to the majority of the places (95% ++) in the Greater Phoenix Area.  The only exception to this rule will be Gluten-Free places to eat.  The first place I’m going to review that offers Gluten-Free food is the Gelato Spot (or the G-Spot).  The Gelato Spot is probably the closest version of true European Gelato you’re going to find on the West Coast (trust me on this).

So what is Gelato?  According to the Gelato Wikipedia page:

Gelato, or the plural Gelati, is Italian ice cream made from milk and sugar, combined with other flavorings. The gelato ingredients (after an optional pasteurization) are frozen while stirring to break up ice crystals as they form. Like high-end ice cream, gelato generally has less than 35% air, resulting in a denser and more flavorful product.

So basically you’re getting great tasting, quality ice cream with great ingredients.

Ok enough with the lesson.

The Gelato Spot is probably the best place not only to get a great snack but it’s a great place to take a date or just to hang out to do work.  According to the Gelato Spot website they have been voted ‘Best Ice Cream’ and ‘Best Place to be Seen in Arizona’.  They have free wi-fi so those of you with those mobile computer type thingys can get some work done.

The Gelato Spot offers 36 different flavors per day and have 150 total flavors that are rotated in and out at various intervals.  You can get gelato for two for under $10 but sometimes it may go over $10.  Once you see all the flavors they have you’ll see why it’s often commonplace to spend over $10 for two people…there’s just too many killer flavors to choose from.

Now if you are someone who has to eat Gluten Free food make sure you ask the Manager which flavors are gluten free as the Gelato Spot is not 100% gluten free (More like 90-97% Gluten-Free).

For those of you who can eat gluten don’t get turned off by this review.  A sign of a Gluten Free restaurant is that they more often than not will serve as close to 100% natural foods as possible.  So if you want something that is sinful, delicious, and (for the most part) good for you, check out the Gelato Spot.  You won’t be disappointed.

For more information, locations, hours, and things like that check out the Gelato Spot website:

http://www.gelatospot.com/

Popularity: 15% [?]

Ok this is a recommendation from…let’s just call her uber hottie from the Gym I go to.  Anyways, we got talking about how we’re both relatively new in town and how we’re kinda bored of the getting hammered/club scene and we were looking for something new to do.  We exchanged tips based on some things that we did and one of the places she recommended was ‘First Fridays in Phoenix’.  She briefly told me about it and I Googled it when I got back to my pad.  Anyways, this seems to be a bigger and more organized Art Walk than the one in Old Town Scottsdale.  It starts at 6:00 PM and according to the First Fridays website:

We suggest you start at the Phoenix Public Library, located just south of McDowell Road on Central Avenue.

Stop inside to get a first Friday brochure, that includes all the member galleries, their locations in the downtown Phoenix area, and the best shuttle bus route that will get you out and about! That’s right – shuttle buses.

So basically it seems to be a better funded and more interesting Art Walk type of event in the Valley.  I’m definitely checking this out on the first Friday of August.

Popularity: 4% [?]

This is the first post in a new Category called ‘Outdoors Stuff’. There won’t be very many entries in this category right now due to it being the Monsoon season and triple digit temperatures. In the odd day that it’s cool enough to go out I wanted to draw up a simple map of the Scottsdale Greenbelt based on one of the shorter Bike Rides I used to train for a triathlon a few months ago.  You can go on some of the trail or all of it depending on how hot it becomes or how much you want to explore the belt.  Granted, if the Monsoons dump a ton of rain many parts of the Greenbelt will be closed from flooding due to the crappy drainage there is in the Greenbelt.

Here’s a detailed map of the Greenbelt trail From Scottsdale to Mill Ave in Tempe and back.

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Ok this one is explicitly for the ladies and Men who are Coldplay fans (had to have seen the ‘40 Year Old Virgin’ to get that one).  Every Monday night from 5PM to 9 PM, Furio in Old Town Scottsdale hosts ‘Martini’s and Manicures’ for $10. Pretty simple and straight forward. This one is definitely going in the ‘Get out of the Doghouse’ category for the Guys….

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Ok all you Ladies and Male Coldplay fans, I just found this video on YouTube and if this doesn’t sell the event for ya, I don’t know what will…

http://www.furio.tv/events.html

Furio
7210 East Second Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85251

480-945-6600

Popularity: 6% [?]

Coldplay

Wed, Nov. 26th, 7:30 pm

Tickets: $49.50-$97.50

Jobing.com Arena
9400 W. Maryland Ave.
Glendale, AZ 85305

For more information and to purchase tickets:

http://jobingarena.com/index.php?option=com_gigcal&task=details&gigcal_gigs_id=232&Itemid=27

Popularity: 1% [?]