Posts Tagged ‘Wickenburg’

Gaga for dance

Lynn Trimble has a treat for folks who go “gaga” for dance — a roundup of more than a dozen dance performances coming soon to Valley stages from Israel, Australia, California and Arizona’s many talented dance companies.

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Risking everything to be thin

Maggie Pingolt, a senior at ASU’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Photo by Daniel Friedman.

I feel like I always fall short of painting an accurate picture of what it was like, how it felt and why I did what I did when I was at the height of my struggle with an eating disorder. One hot summer night four years ago, I slept outside on my parents’ porch beneath [...]

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There’s gold in them hills

Because my husband’s new hobby is lapidary (which is actually not a new hobby, but one resurrected from his youth), we decided to take a day of our holiday vacation to go rock hunting. We consulted the book Gem Trails of Arizona and found what seemed like an abundant site of minerals outside of Wickenburg. [...]

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A labor of love

An hour slotted for running errands quickly turns into a hour spent with the arts, conjuring vivid memories of a true labor of love.

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Fuzzy math

I got an “SOS” of sorts from a friend on Monday morning — alerting me to talk of closing Wickenburg’s one public library due to lack of funding. I was reminded of George W. Bush hurling the term ”fuzzy math” at Al Gore during a presidential election — and the many times since that both sides have seemed [...]

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RAK Giveaways

“After Earth” sneak preview

A crash landing leaves teenager Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity’s escape. With Cypher critically injured, Kitai must embark on a perilous journey to signal for help, facing uncharted terrain, evolved animal species that now rule the planet, and an [...]

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