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Thursday, June 20, 2013

Posts Tagged ‘Boyd Branch’

Get creative!

The Mesa Festival of Creativity runs through March 18 at the Mesa Arts Center. Lynn Trimble share photos of a Saturday visit to the festival with her son Christopher, which got off to an amazing start with a lovely bit of LEGO art.

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Bald is beautiful

Bald is beautiful at Scottsdale Community College, as the theatre arts department readies to take Eugene Ionesco’s “Bald Sopranos” directed to Randy Messersmith to a regional Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival in Utah.

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Chicano studies — with a twist

Imagine “West Side Story” against the backdrop of WWII, minus the singing but with a heavier dose of politics. You’ve got “Zoot Suit,” being performed through Oct. 22 at the Lyceum Theatre on ASU’s Tempe campus.

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Bike shorts?

Lynn Trimble shares more about the Blue Bike Kids Show — predicting that the trio making the show (trained in theater at ASU) will go big, and suggesting the truly hip get in now so they can share in the future glory. Go Blue!

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Ode to blue

After learning of a Valley trio readying the launch of their “Blue Bike” project, Lynn Trimble goes in search of other blue-related fare, discovering everything from Gershwin to Spandex.

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That's absurd!

After attending a community college performance featuring “Theatre of the Absurd,” Lynn Trimble reflects on the many absurdities inherent in parenting and everyday life.

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Theatre of the absurd

Absudity and parenting go hand in hand. Consider the stylings of preschoolers who insist on choosing their own outfits. Cell phones with special ring tones that signal teens to ignore the calls of parents. For a taste of absurdity in theater, and politics, there’s SCC’s current production of Eugene Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros.”

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A summer birthday party at Kiwanis Wave Pool

Make your next birthday party a real splash by holding it at Kiwanis Recreation Center’s indoor wave pool and water slide! What could be better than three-foot waves and a double-spiral water slide? We’re giving away a Splash Bash Birthday Party valued at $175. It includes: 16 people, birthday child is free two-hour hosted public [...]
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Tickets to “Despicable Me 2″ sneak preview

This summer, those lovable yellow minions assemble and return to theaters when “Despicable Me 2″ opens July 3. We are sending five families (four tickets each) to a special, reserved-seating advance screening at 7pm on Thursday, June 27 at the AMC Deer Valley 30. The screening will be in Real D 3D. The film features [...]
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