19 posts tagged “phoenix”
The Phoenix Zoo is celebrating National Elephant Appreciation Day. It awarded the first 25 people through the gates with a tour behind the scenes in the elephant enclosure. How fun would that have been?
Here's one of the elephants getting a shower from a fire truck. Whee!
And at 1:00 - the elephants will smash pinatas filled with fruit. Double whee!
UPDATE: Another new picture! Ahhhhhhnnnn....
Photos like these are what make Twitter really useful. If you are on Twitter, you can get in on the wild animal action at @PhoenixZoo.
A VERY BIG DEAL for @PhoenixZoo and for the world. BABY!
http://twitpic.com/hci48
I don't know why that won't make a link, may have to cut and paste - or maybe I will... Here ya go!
But now there are baby tigers! rawr! <-- that's a baby RAWR. They're still little.
Since it's WAAAAY across town, I'll count it as a summer road trip one of these weekends.
Still super busy at work, but not much to report.
Going to see the Go-Go's tonight at ZooBrew, the big blowout party at the PHX Zoo. Lots of beer, food, silent auction prizes (w00t!), live music and my favorite pursuit - people watching. Last year's winner was the drunk guy riding the hummingbird on the Endangered Species Carousel. He was really, really secure in his manhood. Runners-up were the heavily made-up ladies looking for the cougars to ride. Good times!
Elvis has been super adorable lately. I blame him for causing me to be late for work. When he wants lovin's, who am I to deny him?
Okay. Gotta run. Catch you on the flip side!
A picture of politi-cookies from a local bakery in town Tammie Coe. (She makes fantastical cakes, too!)
I bought some for the office a week or so ago and Fabulous Co-Worker Justin was kind enough to take a picture of them with his camera phone.
I liked that the Obama cookie was bigger. I bought two and most of the staff here shared those. So very yummy.
I gave the McCain cookie to our token Republican.
No word on if it was old.
With all the Fall Season Premieres starting, show us your favorite spot to watch them from.
Now is the time of year when I need to look at adjusting/cancelling my Netflix account so it more accurately reflects my time to sit down at home and watch a movie. And stop subsidizing Cranky's account. I love ya, Cranks, but you'll have to go it alone until next summer. :-P
That said, here's one of the places you'll find me as the new arts season kicks in.
This is almost the view from my seats, just go down a row to the fourth row balcony. This will be my 10th year of season tickets for the Arizona Theatre Company. Great shows, except there's usually one clunker every year I can't stand and kick myself for not leaving at intermission. Last year they did a Jekyll & Hyde show that was some of the best theatre I've ever seen here. Wow.
Because of my job, I sometimes get free tix and then I'll give my 'real' tickets to friends, hoping they'll enjoy it enough to get their own someday. A few years ago I had to change my night because Asshole Ex-Boyfriend 'just happened' to get seats right next to mine after I dumped him. Jerk.
A few years ago I picked up season tix to Southwest Shakespeare. Three shows, two of them outside at the Mesa Ampitheater for $15 a pop. How could I pass that up? Then they moved into the glorious new Mesa Arts Center and the prices rocketed up but the production values stayed the same. I thought about ditching my subscription but then the last few years saw them rocket up in quality as well. Now I rave about them to everyone who asks me about theater in town.
I could show you the inside of the MAC, but it's not as impressive as the outside.
The downside is that there's nothing else to do in the area because, well, it's downtown Mesa. But that's an entirely different post altogether. One restaurant finally opened across the street so I'll probably check that out.
This coming Friday I'm hitting the show at the old Tempe Performing Arts Center (no pics, it's not pretty) to catch some wackiness with Stray Cat. It's alternative theatre, now playing in the heart of downtown Tempe, where there is an abundance of restaurants and bars.
I'll probably take in a few shows from some other companies in town. That combined with my playing with the Arizona Wind Symphony, museum events, training for races and other various fun things to do will keep me far away from the television until, oh, June.
Last night we had a majorly WICKED storm. I was watching the strobe-light like lightning surrounding my part of town as I zipped home on the freeway trying to beat the storm and get safely inside my little place. It rained for hours, thunder, lightning, the whole bit.
Powerful thunderstorms ripped across the Valley Thursday night, bringing heavy rain and winds reaching 100 mph that broke the windows of a condominium, shutdown two runways at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and downed hundreds of trees, that seriously hurt at least one child.
Thousands of residents remain without power Friday morning as utility crews try to get electricity restored.
Central Phoenix and Tempe seemed to have been hit the hardest, with parts of the Phoenix receiving almost 2 inches of rain. Scattered debris forced the closure of Sky Harbor north and central runways.
Now the news says we may get more of the same, but maybe only 50 mph winds, later this afternoon. This had better not delay my flight!
*shakes fist at Nature's fury*
I took a little break by taking a stroll around the building. Kind of toasty hot when I first walked out of the building into the non-air-conditioned great outdoors. A little moreso in the sun, less so in the shade. The sign at the bank displayed the current temp: 106.
I thought to myself, "106 is fairly pleasant."
Of course, I was only outside for a span of 3-4 minutes, but still. As much as people roll their eyes when we say it, it really is a dry heat. Not a drop of perspiration thanks to instant evaporation.
Hooray for no humidity!
Show us an example of architecture you find interesting or inspiring.
Sure, Phoenix sprawl can be the poster child for endemic bad/boring design, but there is also a growing appreciation for distinctive architecture. Many students of that peach of a guy *cough*, Frank Lloyd Wright, have given our region - and are still building - structures that make me smile and think, "Yeah, this place can be really great."
Just to pick one example, I give you one of our shining stars and local architecture advocate, Will Bruder.
I could continue to post pics just from Will, but feel free to go to his link (above) and look around. If you are an architecture fan and want to see what other design is happening in the desert, this is a great collection of images from around town and beyond.
