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Cultural Affairs Division aims to spark interest, support for art and culture When the City of Chandler restructured several departments and divisions last year, many cultural programming and arts areas were combined under the umbrella of the new Cultural Affairs Division.

The Chandler Public Library, Chandler Museum and Chandler Center for the Arts were separated from their longtime association with the Parks, Recreation and Aquatics divisions and moved to the new division under the leadership of Every Friday, a new bookface image is posted on the library’s Brenda Brown Instagram account.

Brown served more Brown wants to facilitate more than 10 years as the library manager prior to being named the collaboration between the center, new division’s director and now museum and libraries, and leverage oversees more than 170 regular, part- resources to expand programming, increase awareness and boost time and temporary staff members.

The library, museum and center participation. “For example, the have distinct missions, but Brown divisions can coordinate their pointed out that they also have many programming around a common theme—such as Hispanic Heritage commonalities.

“They all focus on offering programs Month—and cross-promote each that are entertaining and educational, other’s events,” Brown said.

Here are some of the great things they provide public spaces where people of all ages come together to ahead for the Cultural Affairs explore, create and learn, and they all Division: enhance the quality of life in Chandler,” she said. “Plus, they all have strong Chandler Center for the Arts Good News: The visual arts support from the community with enthusiastic stakeholders, advisory continue to thrive in Chandler, with dynamic exhibits in the Vision Gallery groups and nonprofit boards.”

Those groups include the at Chandler City Hall and the Center Chandler Arts Commission, Cultural for the Arts Gallery. The public art Foundation, Library Board, Friends program places art in parks, municipal of the Chandler Public Library, buildings and throughout downtown Museums Advisory Board, Pardners Chandler. For information, visit www. of Tumbleweed Ranch, Chandler chandleraz.gov/art.

Better News: Vision Kidz art classes Historical Society and Sports Hall started Aug. 15 at the Vision Gallery. of Fame. With two public libraries on Chandler high school campuses These free, popular classes taught by and the Center for the Arts a shared professional artists fill up quickly. For facility, the City and Chandler Unified information, go to www.visiongallery.

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By Tracy House “My top score was 300 when I was At 100 years old, Vern Nelson can 90, here (at Kyrene Lanes),” he said. “I still bowl a pretty rewould have been 91 spectable game. The in a week or so. It was centenarian averages September 3rd.”

140 a game in the sumDavid, who has mer senior league at bowled with his father Brunswick Kyrene for about a decade, Lanes in Chandler. saw his dad bowl the Vern and his son, Da300 game. vid, both of whom are “It was 11 days beSun Lakes residents, fore his birthday. Evhave been bowling in ery ball was right in the Tuesday morning the pocket, perfect,” league for several years.

David said. “It was a It’s a hobby that Vern Friday color pin game. has indulged in since he Brunswick gave him Vern Nelson, 100 years old, and his a plaque and a jacket. was about 18 years. son, David, bowl in a Tuesday league “There were about at Brunswick Kyrene Lanes. Vern’s The bowling alley gave 20 years I didn’t bowl,” average is a 224. He’ll be 101 years him a bowling ball.” old in September.

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Vern Nelson, 100 years old, bowls weekly at the Brunswick Kyrene Lanes. He bowled his perfect 300 game when he was 90 years old.

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The former president and CEO of Southwest Savings and Loan, Vern retired in 1982. He was born in Idaho, and moved along with his wife, Sylvia, to Arizona in 1977 to be closer to his son and grandchild.

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Vern now has four children, four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren spread across the country in Seattle, San Diego, Tennessee and Texas.

“He used to have a sea plane and we had sailboats,” David said. “He’s had a good life.”

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Best News: The upcoming season at the Center for the Arts promises to be one of the best ever, with a variety of music, dance, comedy and family-friendly performances. Tickets are on sale at www.chandlercenter. org.

Chandler Public Library Good News: A public Vision Gallery. library is still a community gathering space, and a Preschool Storytime, Toddlertime, resource for those who may be and High Five-Reading Together economically disadvantaged.

In and Read to Succeed are some of the addition to offering adult literacy programs offered at Chandler’s four and English language classes, the libraries to help parents enhance library also features a job center and their child’s literacy. In addition, provides assistance with resumes and more people participated in the job searches. One of five Americans Summer Reading Program than ever do not have reliable access to the before. For information, visit www.

Internet, which is another challenge chandlerlibrary.org. in today’s economy. Chandler public libraries offer free Wi-Fi and dozens Chandler Museum of public access computers.

Good News: A new museum is Better News: Chandler Library scheduled to begin construction has embraced technology and is during the 2017-18 fiscal year. The looking for more museum’s design ways to innovate, is expected to be but the staff is completed during not neglecting the current fiscal the needs of users year, and it will be who prefer to relax built adjacent to its and browse the current home, the shelves for a great historic McCulloughread. A group of Price House, located employees, called southwest of Chandler the Discovery Fashion Center.

Team, works Better News: The historic McCullough-Price House, to present new 300 S. Chandler Village Dr., near Chandler Until the new facility authors and titles Fashion Center is home to the Chandler opens, the museum to the public in Museum. continues to highlight interesting and Chandler history, creative ways. Other employees conducts educational programs create book lists to help library guests for students and hosts the annual find their next reading pleasure. Chandler Chuckwagon Cook-Off Check out the Chandler Library’s at Tumbleweed Ranch on Nov. 7. social media accounts for examples Because it possesses the extensive of their creativity. Instagram @ archive of Chandler Arizonan chandlerlibrary and Twitter @ newspapers, the museum also serves chandlerlibaz. as a research hub for the public as Best News: Chandler is a Read On well as other museums and historical Arizona community, “committed societies in the East Valley. to ensuring that every child, birth Best News: Check out www. through 5, obtains the necessary ChandlerPedia.com, the growing literacy skills for school readiness.” online resource, to learn about all Lapsit Babytime, Family Storytime, things Chandler.

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The trendy women’s boutique will partner with ICAN, which offers free programs to local families.

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Kudos as well to our executive editor, Christina Fuoco-Karasinski, who was named a Donation Champion by the Donor Network for her vast coverage of Donate Life Month in April. She will be featured in an upcoming edition of the organization’s newsletter.

Seton Catholic High School will be hosting a three-on-three basketball tournament on Saturday, Sept. 12.

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Congratulations to Mayor J a y Ti b s h r a e n y ! H e w a s presented with the “Outstanding Public Official Award” on Aug. 11 at the Arizona Parks & Recreation Association (APRA) Awards presentation held at the historic Fox Theater in downtown Tucson.

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The first time I tried bottle cutting, I bought an extremely cheap tool at the craft store and it worked about as well as expected. A few months ago I read about the Kinkajou Bottle Cutter, which is designed to get rid of all of the problems I experienced the first time around. When I priced them on Amazon, however, I was shocked. I’m not sure I’m willing to invest $50 (or more!) in a single tool for doing casual art projects. After reviewing the list of “related products” Amazon so helpfully provides, I settled on the AGPtek Glass Bottle Cutter, which appears to address the same issues the Kinkajou was designed to take care of, but for $30 less. biz box

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Step 1: Scoring I think calling these tools “glass-cutting machines” is rather misleading. They are designed to enable the user to make near-perfect scores in the glass that allow the pieces to break cleanly. I learned very quickly that even with a much better glass cutting tool I needed to start with twice as many glass containers as I planned to finish with because there’s a steep learning curve and I

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The trick to good bottle cutting is keeping a constant pressure on the bottle as you’re making the score. If there’s a section of the bottle where the applied pressure is lower, that’s the area where the cut won’t break cleanly, most often spiderwebbing and ruining the entire piece.

The other thing I’ve learned is that the start and end of the score in the glass need to meet each other. If they are off at all when the glass splits in the next step, best case scenario is you will be left with an offset nub of glass that will take more time to sand away. Worst case scenario is the break in the glass will spiderweb through the entire bottle and ruin it.

Drinking glasses I tried two versions of drinking glasses, one where I used glass glue to adhere the top of the bottle to its base to create stemware. The other was simpler, just turning the cut-and-sanded base into a 12-ounce tumbler.

Candle holders and vases As you can see from the picture below, the rest of the pieces I cut were turned into either candle holders or vases. I turned my kids loose on some of the finished pieces with Sharpie’s Oil-based Paint Markers to decorate. I bought the pastel collection but they’re also available in metallic and primary colors. I haven’t washed them yet, so I am not sure how durable the decorations are. I also recommend battery-powered votive candles, as the bottles that were sitting over the real candles got extremely hot.

Step 2: Separating You will need a deep pot of boiling water and another of ice-cold water.

Grasp the glass piece with an oven mitt and submerge the scored section in the boiling water for at least 30 seconds. Immediately transfer to the ice water and submerge above the score.

You should hear pings as the glass contracts. More often than not if I did it right, the two pieces would separate after a few seconds in the ice water. If it doesn’t separate after 30 seconds in ice water, transfer back to the hot water and continue alternating until the pieces finally separate.

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away the sharp edges left when the pieces separated. I went over them once with 60-grit, then 120, then 240 and this was more than adequate for making the glass safe to touch. As a note, wearing gloves, eye protection and long-sleeves is very important when using a Dremel on glass. It throws off small, sharp shards of glass throughout the process.

For the drinking glasses, I took the extra step of going over the edges by hand a final time with 400-grit sandpaper.

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By Jill Pertler

Remembering a special dog She wasn’t even my dog. Not even close. Even though she and I lived in the same house, she clearly answered to another master—my husband. Still, I loved her like you love a family dog that’s been around for more years than you have fingers.

She loved playing fetch. She was a retriever, so I guess that makes sense. We could throw a ball or a stick (or whatever object she was fetching that day) for hours and she’d keep going until we made her quit.

Her favorite place was the lake.

She loved to swim. Combine that with retrieving and you had perfection—from her perspective, at least.

Each summer, she’d find herself a good stick and it would be her “toy” to fetch from the lake during the long, hot days we spent there.

My husband would throw it as far as he could and she’d joyfully (and

I do mean joyfully) bound into the water—swimming once it got deep enough. She’d grab the stick in her mouth, swim back to shore and drop her toy at my husband’s feet. Then she’d give whomever was nearby a doggy shake shower before turning toward the lake to fetch again. And again. And again. As long as we’d let her.

I’m so glad we had the lake for her to love.

She was a good dog (great dog) in most regards. She didn’t chew or jump on the furniture. She was awesome with kids and she patiently and gently put up with the cats (sometimes with a deep doggy sigh). She was pretty good about staying in the yard (unless a neighbor’s garbage was calling to her nose). If something was broken or someone got into the cat treats, she was pretty sure she was in trouble, even when

it was clearly the cats’ fault. She was a trustworthy, loyal companion.

She never did learn to walk properly on a leash. She wouldn’t relent to it, always tugging and pulling to the point that we thought she might choke. I am sure she fully understood the “heel” command. She was a smart girl. She just refused to acknowledge it. It was one of the few instances of her asserting her independence.

Another involved her phobias.

She was a big dog—85 pounds in her heyday—but the smallest details could put her in a tizzy. Certain floor coverings were taboo. She’d walk on wood, but not laminate. Vinyl was OK, but not her favorite. She refused to go down the stairs to the basement. The kitchen pantry terrified her. It happened to be where we kept her food so that sort of benefited us. One time we got her a fancy new water dish. She wouldn’t drink out of it because it scared her.

She went out the back door to do her business, but would only access it from the right side of the door

frame. She wouldn’t go out the door leading to the garage. The garage itself, however, was fine. We quit trying to figure her out years ago and just loved her for what she was— quirks and all—because every family has its quirks.

The hardest part about having a dog is that they grow old too soon.

She was old and this has been coming for some time.

But you’re never ready. Not really. I’m not sure it’s possible. Still, I didn’t realize how much I wasn’t ready—to wake up without her under the bed. To never throw the stick for her again, or get the eyeball or make her eggs.

She wasn’t even my dog. But she was our dog. And she was a part of our family—an important part. I’m going to miss her. Sure am. Already do.

Jill Pertler is an award-winning syndicated columnist, published playwright and author. Don’t miss a slice; follow the Slices of Life page on Facebook.

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Join other kayakers ages 10 and older for a night under the stars Hello Kitty and her super cute friends as everyone glows and glides across will perform with their first live tour, the water. which features dance sequences and WHEN: Friday, Sept. 11, from 7 p.m. to interactive displays. mom cents pasta vixen financially speaking 9 p.m.

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COST: $20 to $35 WHERE: Gila River Arena, 9400 W. INFO: (480) 350-8069 or Maryland Ave., Glendale www.tempe.gov COST: Varies photo page events calendar INFO: diy(800) 745-3000 or bit.ly/1ek6On8 7 The Teen Scene Hang out with friends, play games, grab a spot to study, use a 2 Plugged In laptop or munch on some snacks.

Eight youth bands and two WHEN: Thursday, Aug. 27, from 4 p.m. soloists perform at the Chandler to 5 p.m. hearsay Centerlaw talk for the Arts’ signature concert, meet your neighbor WHERE: Sunset Library, 4930 W. Ray “Plugged In.” WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 12, at 6:30 p.m. Rd., Chandler COST: Free WHERE: Chandler Center for the Arts, INFO: (480) 782-2800 or 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler www.chandlerlibrary.org COST: Free INFO: (480) 782-2680 or biz box expensive homes looking back www.chandlercenter.org 8 Childsplay: “Sideways

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Boyce Thompson Arboretum Sept. 26, at 8:30 a.m.—Butterfly Walk: Queens, Empress Leilia, spring azures and more stir delight during a leisurely walk through the Hummingbird-Butterfly Garden, Demonstration Garden and Children’s Garden collections, led by local butterfly

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• Sunday, Aug. 23, at 7:30 a.m.—Guided Bird Walk: Discover how to spot yellow-breasted chats, Lucy’s warblers, Bell’s vireos, northern cardinals and many more birds during this interpretive walk led by members of the Arizona Field Ornithologists board.

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Carlo and Emilie’s Gourmet Deli

Tammy Hines’ Doubletree Chocolate Chip Cookies chocolate chip cookies. The first thing that popped into my head was Doubletree. If you’ve ever stayed at a Doubletree Hotel, you know that the first thing that happens when you check in is you’re handed a wonderful chocolate chip cookie.

“After searching the Internet she tried and modified several recipes that claimed to duplicate the Doubletree cookies. After baking and testing batch after batch, the results are a cookie that our friends and family can’t resist.

Be prepared to never love another chocolate chip cookie like this one!”

As I plant my face in a plateful of decadent chocolate chips, I’m thanking Tammy and her dedication to the pursuit of “The Cookie,” while reliving memories of snowy Lake Tahoe school days and the best warm-out-of-theoven chocolate chips a 6-year-old could ever dream of!

If you have a recipe that you think our readers would love to try, email me. While you’re there, check out more recipes and cooking tips at www. jandatri.com.

Tammy Hines’ Doubletree Chocolate Chip Cookies

1 1/2 cups chopped walnuts

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Combine the oats, flour, soda, salt and cinnamon.

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In a separate bowl, cream together the butter, sugars, vanilla and lemon.

Add eggs and mix until smooth. Stir in dry ingredients. Mix in chocolate chips and nuts. Spoon rounded balls (about 1/4 cup each) onto a parchment or foil-lined cookie sheet about 2 inches apart. Bake 10-12 minutes or until light golden brown on outside edges but still soft in the middle.

Makes 40 large cookies.

Note: Tammy refrigerates the dough, which helps to hold the cookies together. And Lee (who says he hovers over every batch to make sure he gets to scrape the bowl clean) tells me that these cookies freeze well, too.

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Carlo and Emilie’s Gourmet Deli is for the cannoli, and I make my own the culmination of a friendship that fresh bread every day. For sandwiches, blossomed into a tasty and successful there are two types of bread that I business. Carlo Ventura and Emilie make—two different hoagie breads— Frances put their one is sun-dried culinary, business tomato with my and management own homemade knowledge together pesto and then the to create a deliciously other is a regular different kind of deli. hoagie. Eventually, They met when I will also make my Ventura was working own pasta.” as a manager at A point of pride Bernard’s at Ocotillo for Ventura is the Golf Resort. variety of pasta “Because he spoke sauces that he French, we became Carlo Ventura and Emilie Frances own crafts.

Available Carlo and Emilie’s Gourmet Deli, a sauces include friends,” explained unique deli boasting both Italian and puttanesca, pesto, Frances, who hails French influences.

Alfredo, Bolognese, from France. “Then he introduced my mom to my stepdad tomato and fresh sage with browned and they got married, and my stepdad butter. Ventura said the butternut squash ravioli as the most requested is the third partner here.”

Although Ventura is Italian and pasta. The tomato and fresh sage with Frances is French, the duo saw potential browned butter is usually the sauce of in opening a business. Ventura’s choice for that pasta.

Homemade soups include chicken experience includes working in the hotel and restaurant industries in Italy, with fresh vegetables and wild rice, Germany and France prior to coming potato, squash soup, beef soup, Italian wedding soup and, on Fridays, lobster to the United States in the 1970s.

“I was asked to do something and I bisque.

Running the deli gives Frances and thought it would be good to do a deli,” Ventura said. “We have similar types of Ventura the opportunity to get to know foods where we are from originally— their guests.

“I love people—that’s the main thing. tomatoes, peppers, fish.

Carlo and Emilie’s Gourmet Deli I love people and I love to see people. opened in December and it quickly I’ve been doing this for so long and I made its mark as a restaurant with a cannot be without people,” Ventura stated. unique menu variety.

Frances added, “I’m enjoying cooking Sandwiches include prosciutto with hard salami and asiago, smoked turkey and I like being at the register, also, to with asiago and soppressata, prosciutto see people’s reaction when they get and asiago. Hot sandwiches boast their food and say, ‘Oh, wow that is Ventura’s meatballs made fresh daily, huge.’ I love that. It’s so amazing and it chicken pesto, beef braciole, and veal makes me feel good.” and eggplant parmigiana.

“We do a lot of orders to-go, Carlo and Emilie’s especially in the evening—more so Gourmet Deli pastas than sandwiches,” Ventura said.

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1/2 cup quick cooking oats 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup unsalted butter 3/4 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup white sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract 1/2 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 2 large eggs 3 cups semisweet premium chocolate chips (Ghirardelli or Guittard preferred)

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So many of my fondest memories are related to food, and the beginning of the school year is no exception.

I had a best friend in first grade. Didn’t everyone? To this day, I still remember the beyond-delicious homemade chocolate chip cookie that Michele’s mom would pack in her lunchbox.

I would have traded everything I had in my brown bag and then some for just one bite of that cookie. Fortunately, Michele had a generous heart and would share the cookies with me every time her mom would bake them.

I’ve been on a lifelong search to find a recipe that even came close to that treasure. So you can imagine my excitement when I received an email from Valley resident Lee Hines about his wife’s chocolate chip cookies.

Tammy Hines was determined to duplicate a well-known winner and finally succeeded. And I had found the recipe that has come the closest to the cookies I loved so many years ago! Lee shares the story of Tammy’s quest: “Yes, I remember that fateful day.

It was a few years ago when Tammy announced she was going to make

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Women’s faces by women artists on display at the CCA

By Kenneth LaFave

The faces of Arizona women, interpreted by Arizona women artists, will line the walls of the Chandler Center for the Arts Gallery, 250 N. Arizona Ave., through Oct. 24.

Portraits of Arizona businesswomen, civic leaders, philanthropists, writers, politicians and celebrities comprise the exhibition, “Women Making Faces.”

Ten Arizona women artists created the show’s 65 portraits in oils, watercolor, charcoal and silverpoint.

“I’ve always had an obsession for anything with eyeballs,” said Debra Jones, the Scottsdale artist who curated “Women Making Faces.” “Portraiture is everything to me. There’s something in the eyes.”

Jones got the idea for the exhibition when she saw a show called “Women Painting Women” in Alexandria, Virginia.

“In Virginia, they’ve been doing these for about five years,” she said. “When Chandler Center for the Arts’ gallery came available, the opportunity to do

one like it here was huge.”

Jones contacted every Arizona woman artist she knew and some she didn’t, and asked them to make a list of notable Arizona women they would like to paint. The resulting exhibition represents 10 artists, each of whom have contributed from two to 16 portraits of prominent Arizona women.

“It’s a showcase, a walk-in portfolio of work by 10 women artists,” Jones said.

In addition to Jones, the exhibition’s artists are: Carole Andreen-Harris, Mary Rochelle Burnham, Linda Fox, Moira Marti Geoffrion, Gini Heywood, Carla Keaton, Chris Saper, Gay Myers Scheibl and Annette Smith.

Jones’ own list of 16 portraits includes some stellar subjects.

Sandra Day O’Connor tops a list that includes businesswoman Kimber Lanning, ASU Gammage’s Colleen Jennings-Roggensack, author Jana Bommersbach, philanthropist Cindy McCain and former governor, Janet Napolitano.

Debra Jones painted “Billie Jo Herberger” for “Women Making Faces” at the CCA. (Debra Jones © 2015)

“Kimberly McWaters”

by Mary Rochelle Burnham portrays the CEO. (Mary Rochelle Burnham © 2015)

Artist Mary Rochelle Burnham, who moved to Cornville from Michigan two years ago, chose five subjects: Kimberly McWaters, CEO of Universal Technical Institute; Beverly Damore, of St. Mary’s Food Bank; Rabbi Alicia Magal of the Jewish Community of Sedona; world traveler and volunteer Marjorie West, and Dr. Hollis Underwood, an internal medicine specialist in Scottsdale.

Like all the other artists, Burnham also included a self-portrait.

“I’ve been doing portraits since I was 11 years old. It’s my number one thing,” Burnham said.

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Part of the intent of “Women Making Faces” is to alert Arizona art lovers to the value of having one’s portrait done and the local talent available to do it.

“I call it iPhone marketing,” Jones added. “Nobody knew they needed an iPhone until there was one. It’s the same with portraiture.”

“I’m hoping this exhibition will let people know my style, so if they like it, they might commission me,” Burnham said.

For more information on “Women Making Faces,” call (480) 782-2695, or go to www.chandlercenter.org.

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events calendar Aug. 20 - Sept. 20, 2015 Women Making Faces This exhibit features portraits of some of Arizona’s most renowned women painted by Arizona’s most dynamic portrait artists.

WHEN: Through Oct. 24; various times. Meet-and-greet reception your neighbor withmeetartists from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 18. Includes live painting demonstrations.

WHERE: Chandler Center for the Arts Gallery, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler COST: Free expensive homes INFO: (480) 782- 2680 or visit www. chandlercenter.org events calendar

Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo 35th Anniversary Tour Along the way, the union of Pat Benatar and Neil “Spyder” Giraldo has become one of the most successful in music history and their legacy continues to be celebrated across the globe.

WHEN: Friday, Aug. 21, at 8 p.m.

WHERE: Wild Horse Pass, 5040 Wild Horse Pass Blvd., Chandler COST: $45-$105 INFO: (800) 946-4452 or visit www.wingilariver.com.

Tres Guittaras Flamenco, blues and jazz entwine through the hands and musical voices of three incredible artists.

Chris Jácome, Bob Fahey and Stan Sorenson embark on a six-string journey with their distinctive musical voices.

WHEN: Friday, Aug. 21, at 7 p.m.

WHERE: Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler COST: Free INFO: (480) 782- 2680 or visit www. chandlercenter.org Ritmo Latino Led by singer Andres Martinez, Ritmo Latino masterfully mixes up a salsa, cumbia, cha, cha, cha and Latin jazz musical blend. Ritmo Latino is comprised of some of the top Latin jazz players in the Southwest.

WHEN: Friday, Aug. 28, at 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler COST: Free

Sinbad Actor and comedian Sinbad arrived on the comedy scene with a “hit’em in the face” style of comedy that has kept audiences laughing in the aisles for the past two decades.

WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 29, at 8 p.m.

WHERE: Wild Horse Pass, 5040 Wild Horse Pass Blvd., Chandler COST: $30-$69 INFO: (800) 946-4452 or visit www. wingilariver.com.

Vietnamese Concert: Tieng Cuo Am Nhac/Dance Enjoy an evening of traditional and contemporary Vietnamese entertainment at Ovations Live!

Showroom. Top-name performers take the stage to showcase the best in Vietnamese music, singing, dancing and more.

WHEN: Friday, Sept. 4, at 9 p.m.

WHERE: Wild Horse Pass, 5040 Wild Horse Pass Blvd., Chandler COST: $25-$70 INFO: (800) 946-4452 or visit www. wingilariver.com.

Chandler Symphony Pops Concert Music director Jack Herriman and associate conductor Alex Zhen lead volunteer musicians from around the Valley for this “Purely American” concert. The orchestra performs quality symphonic and orchestral music.

WHEN: Friday, Sept. 11, at 7:30 p.m.

WHERE: Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler COST: Free. Suggested donations are $5 child, $10 adult or $15 family.

INFO: (480) 782- 2680 or visit www. chandlercenter.org Latin Comedy Jam Dillion Garcia, Javi Luna, Frankie Quinones, Roberto Rodriguez and Steve Trevino are featured in the Latin Comedy Jam. WHEN: Friday, Sept. 11, at 8 p.m.

WHERE: Wild Horse Pass, 5040 Wild Horse Pass Blvd., Chandler COST: $20 INFO: (800) 946-4452 or visit www.wingilariver.com.

Dana Carvey Emmy-award winning comedian Dana Carvey has maintained an illustrious career as a repertory member of “Saturday Night Live” from 1986 until 1992.

WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 19, at 9 p.m.

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Diamondback Air is not a 24-hour emergency service company, but staff will take care of existing customers after hours who have health or other issues.

Tyler Stettler, operations manager for Diamondback Air, said the company focuses on residential and commercial air conditioning and serves customers throughout the Valley.

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