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March 15 - April 4, 2014
BARBECUE FESTIVAL FROM PAGE 61
in the event for several years. “This is one of the most amazing day events in the state,” says Mark Smith. “People just eat, eat, eat. This is the day where people break their fast and eat barbecue all day long.” As a business owner, Smith recognizes the value of getting his food out to the masses at The Great American Barbeque and Beer Festival. “If you do a great job out there, you’re going to win a customer,” he notes. Honey Bear’s BBQ will serve barbecue pork, chicken and beef, ribs, ribs tips and stuffed barbecue baked potatoes. Entertainment this year includes Arizona-based country rock cover band Georgia Chrome, Nashville recording artist and Arizona native Laura Walsh, Top 20 Billboard recording artist Craig Campbell, and headliners Grammy Award winning artists Blues Traveler whose hits include “Run-Around,” “But Anyway” and “Hook.” (See accompanying story.) Other event highlights include the SanTan Brewing Tailgaters’ Lawn, UltraStar March Madness Lounge, Chester’s Harley Davidson Pavilion, Porkopolis VIP Quarters, Dickel Hoedown Rodeo Zone, Bulleit Bourbon BBQ Pit Row, DC Farmers Market and an expanded kids’ play zone. Barbecue pit masters will also compete in the Bashas’ Backyard Throwdown Competition. “We had about 17,000 people attend last year,” Pruett notes. “We hope to hit the 20,000 mark this year. To make room for that, we have added about 10,000 square feet of activity space this year.”
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Photo art on display at Vision Gallery
FAMILY FRIENDLY: The festival features something for every member of the family, including food vendors, beer vendors, the Kid Zone and eating contests. Submitted photo
A portion of the event proceeds will benefit the Boot Campaign, a 501(c)(3) dedicated to providing assistance to wounded military and their families with job placement, securing mortgage-free homes, post-traumatic stress disorder counseling, adaptive clothing and more. For additional information visit www. bootcampaign.com. To purchase tickets and for a full entertainment event schedule, visit www. chandlerbbq.com. Event hours are 12 p.m. to 10 p.m. There is street parking located throughout downtown Chandler including a lot in front of the city building and a dirt lot at the north end of Dr. A.J. Chandler Park. Parking is free. Lynette Carrington is a freelancer for the SanTan Sun News. She can be contacted at lynette@santansun.com.
The artwork of Linda Ingraham will be on display through Saturday, May 3, at the Vision Gallery in downtown Chandler. Ingraham is a local mixedmedia photographer who has honed her skills in places as diverse as Italy, New Mexico and the Sorbonne in Paris. The works in “25 Years of Mixed Media Photography” are influenced by her travels as well as her childhood and extensive artistic studies, and she incorporates painting into the background of her photographs. Ingraham’s work has been displayed in galleries and museums around the country as well as in Japan and Brussels. In 1993 she received two grants from the Arizona Commission on the Arts: a Visual Arts Fellowship and an Artists Project Grant. She has also worked with the Phoenix Art Museum and Ballet Arizona.
Ingraham’s photo-constructions appear haunting and emotional as she strives to evoke the sense of reverence she felt while viewing altars and icons of the Gothic and Renaissance periods. She uses her works to create visual metaphors of things like fear, hope and desire. “I am drawn to beauty but I like to push beyond the boundary of the merely beautiful and imbue it with an emotional quality. A large part of my work deals with metaphors, trying to embody an idea or an emotion by using a figure, object or juxtaposition of photographs in a simple iconic way,” Ingraham says in her artist’s statement. For more information call (480) 7822695 or visit www.visiongallery.org.
improvMANIA hosts comedy show improvMANIA, a locally founded and based comedy troupe, will present a free 90-minute program in the style of television’s “Whose Line is it Anyway?” from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 22, and Saturday, June 21, held at Sozo Coffee in Chandler. The show is family friendly and fast paced, so guests should arrive early to catch it all, and plan to drink some coffee and laugh all night long. From its beginnings in downtown
Chandler, improvMANIA has performed all over Arizona; including Payson, Prescott, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Sun City, Sun Lakes, Mesa, Gilbert and Chandler. Sozo Coffee is located at 1982 N. Alma School Rd., Chandler, at the southwest corner of Alma School and Warner roads, directly under the clock tower. To learn more visit http:// improvMANIA.net.
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