The Up Side
Country Dance, 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., Sunland Auditorium, 4601 E. Dolphin Ave., Mesa, $7, (480) 8329003. Music by Angie Senger and Friends.
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November 24 Saturday
I Will Not Vote Angry
Sun City Christian Women’s Club Brunch, 9 a.m., Sun City Country Club, 9433 N.::107th Sun City, byAve.,Michael $15, reservations required by Nov. 9, (623) 341-6019, mwholick@gmail.com. Mary Lou Powell from Golden, standing at the their podiums, Colo., ishey’re the guest speaker and morning will also They wave to you and me: feature a trunk showing of thrift-store fashions. The billionaire, four governors A senator or three. 17 Saturday November
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Fleming’s Seminar—Holiday We watchGrilling as these distinguished Poultry, gents 1Their p.m. tohosts 2:30 p.m.., Fleming’s 9712 W. and countryPeoria, thank. Northernthey Ave., turn Peoria,on $25,one (623) 772-9463, www. Then another, flLike emingssteakhouse.com. Fleming’s piranhas in a tank. Chef Partner Jeff Fearing will show guests how to grill turkey, cook beer can chicken let and them barbequethrow duck plus offersoundbyte tips to make sure Well, their jabs your bird is juicy and delicious. Like monkeys flingin’ poo. But I will not vote angry. Myron and to Hisdo. Music, 7 p.m., Las I’ve gotSommerfeld better things Palmas Grand, 2550 S. Ellsworth Rd., Mesa, $8, (480) 357-1148. The country we love is still found’ring
On the wrong side of “thick & thin.” November Good jobs and college18 areSunday scarce, To my knowledge, Un Corazon Flamenco, 5 p.m., El Encanto, 6248 E. But guns?Rd.,Over there,charge in afor bin. Cave Creek Cave Creek, meals, (480) 488-1752. You’d think candidates would be eager To say,November “We can solve19 this!Monday Here’s how...” Instead all the drama was “who Ina Garten’s Foolproof Thanksgiving,hugged 6:30 Obama?” p.m., Sur La Table, 7122 E. Greenway Pkwy., Suite 100, And said$95, Rosie O.243-0852, was a cow? Scottsdale, (800) www.surlatable.com. They cultivate our outrage November 20 Tuesday As they talk right past our needs. Thanksgiving 12 p.m. to 2 p.m., Via But I will notLuncheon, vote angry Linda Senior Center, 10440 E. Viathat Linda,leads. Scottsdale, $5 ‘Cause I know where all residents, $8 nonresidents, (480) 312-5810. The event features a catered Thanksgiving meal in a heated tent, Yes, anger feels empow’ring. pluscinematic live entertainment. In spheres It ends each Western with a bang 21 Wednesday And November made Clint Eastwood’s career. National Active and Retired Federal Employee We’re decisive people when angry, Association (NARFE) Chapter 1395, 11 a.m., Our decisions are not overthunk. Brothers Family Restaurant, 8466 W. Peoria Ave., Peoria, But When lunch the muststuff be paidwefordecide? by members, (623)anger’s 934-7431.our guide? Well, we would’ve been off drunk. November 22 better Thursday Happy Thanksgiving fromdecisions Lovin’ Life After 50. Look back at the You’ve made in the grip of rage 23 Friday I look atNovember my list, of decisions-made-pissed, It’s less-than-admirable page: 8 a.m. to Sun aCity Fall Arts and Crafts Festival, 4 p.m. Nov. 23, and 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Nov. 24, Sundial There’s your stalled Recreation “Punch Center, 14801 N. 103rd Ave.,computer!” Sun City, free, “Kick that vending (623) 876-3048. The eventmachine!” features raffles and award“Scream themore sad!” winning craftsatfrom than“Mouth 40 clubs inoff SuntoCity.your dad!” “Show the DMVand youHis canMusic, be mean!” Myron Sommerfeld 7 p.m., Venture Out, 5001 E. Main St., Mesa, $8, (480) 832-9000. There’s “Bellow for your English muffin!”
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November 25 Sunday
“Overreact your friend!” The Big WhitetoTent, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Gold Canyon “Tell that6100 loudmouth where to go!” Golf Resort, S. Kings Ranch Rd., Gold Canyon, free, “Stop bleeding, and do it again!” (480) 982-5730, www.artistsofthesuperstitions.com. Thirty artists show/sell fine art. So the candidates ginning up anger Don’t win hearts and 26 minds, as they November Monday ought. Winter Risotto Workshop, 6:30 p.m., Sur La Table, They rage-addled oxes, 7122 E.want Greenway Pkwy., Suite 100, Scottsdale, $69, To check ballot boxes www.surlatable.com. Without too much troubling thought. November 27 Tuesday In these days of highlight-reel outrage, The Swinging Resorters Big Swing Band, Where front-runners point, bray and7 p.m., Sunland Auditorium, 4601 E. Dolphin Ave., Mesa, $5, honk, (480) 832-9003. I am saving my vote— Able candidates, note— November 28 Wednesday For the very first policy wonk. “Dralion,” Nov. 28, thru Dec. 2, US Airways Center, 201 Roll out aSt.,clear manifesto. E. Jefferson Phoenix, $32 to $80, www.cirquedusoleil. Take a tough, principled stand. com/dralion, (800) 745-3000. Thrilling more than 8 Show me some insights, million people worldwide since the show premiered in Too forisathesound 1999, long “Dralion” fusion ofbyte, ancient Chinese circus You don’t win by making mad. traditions and the avant-garde style me of Cirque du Soleil. The votewith is a Emotions sacred invention “Dealing and Stress For which folks andConnections died. Management,” 10have a.m. tostruggled 11 a.m., SCAN So mine will not go Resource Center, 1313 E. Osborn Rd., Suite 150, Phoenix, To podium schmo, free the but reservations required, (602) 778-3420. With the bitchiest sitcom reply. November 29 Thursday I’ll watch these next months from a Best Quick Breads, 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Sweet distance Basilthe Gourmetware Cooking School, As rhetoricand turns fiery red.10749 N. Scottsdale Rd., Suite 101, Scottsdale, $50, (480) 596‘Til they offer details, the whole process 5628, www.sweetbasilgourmet.com. Learn to prepare flails Crispy Popovers with strawberry Iron Skillet Like a cat with a sack onbutter; his Cast head. Beer Bread; Chocolate Chip Zucchini Bread Muffins; Blueberry Scones with Lemon Corn us. and Bacon Maybe somebody willGlaze; “wow” Spoon Bread with tomatoes; California Date Nut Spiced A candidate out of left field Muffi ns; and Homemade Vanilla Bean Tortillas rollednews with Or a mid-to-frontrunner, a breaking cinnamon and sugar. stunner, Who says what he—gasp!—really feels. November 30 Friday
But it’sNight early.Dance, If this7 p.m. were Pamplona Friday to 10 p.m., Sunland The bulls4601 would be just the$7,door Auditorium, E. Dolphin Ave.,out Mesa, (480) 832A long way 9003. Music by to the run, 4-50’sbefore Band. it’s all done, And plenty of asses to gore.
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Ininfo@lovinlifeafter50.com the meantime, I’ll be watching baseball I want to vote hopes and not fears. And that’s why I will not vote angry. So come back for me in a year. Michael Grady is a local playwright, reporter and the author of “Death Calls a Meeting.”
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