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The dream of becoming a writer in the second grade flourished decades later, when J.A. Jance finally gave herself permission to write a first novel.

J.A. Jance attended the University of Arizona in 1964, but was told girls were not allowed into the creative writing program. Her husband, who was allowed in the program, told her there could only be one writer in the family.

After divorcing her husband, Jance moved to Seattle with her two children and began selling life insurance. In 1982, she finally took the step of writing her first novel and has continued to write an average of 1.67 books a year ever since.

“But who is counting?” Jance said, laughing.

Now, her 53rd book, “Dance of the Bones,” shares the story of spending five years on a reservation in Tucson as a librarian for kindergarten through twelfth grade.

“It was a life changing event for me,” she said, because prior to that, what Jance knew about Indians stemmed from playing cowboys and Indians as a kid. “That’s the magic of reading. It takes us to places we wouldn’t go otherwise.”

Jance said she wanted to share the stories she learned on the reservation, and the stories she told on the reservation, with people who would not be able to go to there.

“I told 26 stories a week in k-throughsixth classrooms,” she said, which included such classics as ‘Little Red Riding Hood,’ as well as l’itoi stories of the desert people. “I learned part of the storytelling magic. A story always ends where it starts. At the end of the story you go back to where you were at the beginning of the story.”

Her latest book shares the tales and legends of real people. Jance said she is not trying to bang a drum, but rather just tell a story.

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Readers will learn about such characters as Dancing Quail and Understanding Woman, real individuals from the 1800s.

“To me it’s remarkable. Who knew I was writing historical fiction,” she said.

Jance will have an author talk and book signing event at Tempe Public Library, 3500 S. Rural Rd., from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, nine days after the book is published.

The author goes on two book tours a year, ranging from two weeks to a month, to promote the two books she publishes every year. Jance said she does a minimum of 30 book signings per book.

“I always sign books in red,” she said of running into the problem of never having the same colored pen. “If I meet someone who has one of those pre-signed books, I can fix it and make it utterly seamless.”

Jance thoroughly enjoys having contact with her readers. The author spends time replying to every email she receives because she views them as her customers’ comments.

“What I am most appreciative of is the fact that my books impact other people’s lives,” she said. “I have heard from one guy who ended up getting sober because he read about J.P. Beaumont’s struggles with sobriety. It had a profound impact on his life.”

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By Christina Fuoco-Karasinski Flugelhornist Dmitri Matheny will soon head into the studio to lay down tracks for a film noir-inspired album.

First, however, he’s hoping the public will help raise funds for the collection dubbed “Jazz Noir.”

A Chandler resident, Matheny has embarked on an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign to raise $10,000

by Aug. 31. The monies raised will directly support recording, production, mixing, mastering, artist fees, mechanical licenses and marketing costs associated with “Jazz Noir.” As of press time, he has raised $7,400 of $10,000. To help fund the project, visit http://igg.me/at/ jazznoir/x/11131773.

“We’re in the middle of this crowdfunding campaign to get the bread together to do it,” Matheny said. “We need the cabbage for the caper. We’re hoping to record in the fall. I’ve already booked a session in August. Again, it’s going to happen whether we raise the funds or not.”

Although it would seem to be uncomfortable, Matheny said it isn’t

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necessarily hard to ask folks for money.

“That’s part of what we do,” he said matter of factly. “When we’re doing a big concert, we’re asking sponsors for money. If you’re selling tickets, you’re asking people to buy the tickets.

“If you’re selling your band, you’re asking people to book your band. The sales never end. It’s sad but true. It’s a part of this business—and there’s no way around it.”

But, he said he feels, there’s a “disconnect” when asking for money over the Internet.

“It’s one thing to stand on the stage and say, ‘Buy our new album,’” he explained.

“But with the Internet, it feels impersonal in a funny way. I’m trying to get used to it.”

Supporters who give between $10 and $2,500 have the opportunity to earn “film noir”-influenced perks. For example, those who donate $500 will receive the “femme fatale” package—an original Dmitri Matheny composition in the patron’s honor, a spot in the CD’s liner notes, two VIP guest passes to a concert, and a free MP3 download of the complete

Dmitri Matheny he said. “There’s the saxophone under Collection. a streetlamp in the “There are fog. A lot of those are clever things that great films and TV are only available shows that have a jazz through this soundtrack. If you program, through watch the shows I grew crowdfunding ,” up with in the 1980s— he said. “One like ‘Colombo’ and thing we’re doing Dmitri Matheny is looking to the public ‘Rockford Files’— is when people to help fund his forthcoming album “Jazz there is a lot of bluesy contribute $100, Noir.” jazz kind of influence they not only get a pair of tickets to any concert, anywhere in the music.

“We wanted to bring together the idea on the road. They’re getting a download of my complete discography. It’s basically of classic, timeless jazz as well as the every tune I’ve ever recorded as a band visual element of film noir and crime leader. For 100 songs, it’s a pretty good dramas—and do a musical melding of the two.” value.”

He’s proud to be working on a project Folks who give more than $1,000 for which he can “cut out the middle receive an executive producer credit.

“If they wanted to, they could join man.”

“You go directly to your fans and get NARAS (National Academy of the Recording Arts and Sciences) and them to support the project,” Matheny become a voting member of the academy said. “They provide the financing and and start voting for who should have a then as soon as we start recording, they start accruing benefits.

Grammy,” he said.

“I’m giving it a shot. I’m hoping to raise “Jazz Noir” takes its cue from the film about $10,000 to do this right. For a jazz noir genre of the 1940s and 1950s.

“There’s a jazz ethos to the thing,” recording, that’s pretty reasonable.”

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WWI Centennial Speakers Series highlights border clash

By Meghan McCoy In June 1916 the National Guard called 150,000 troops to the Mexico border. The action eventually resulted in a small battle between the guards and Mexicans.

That piece of history is underexplored and underappreciated, according to Jared Smith, curator at Tempe History Museum, who will showcase the “Great Call-Up” as part of the museum’s World War I Centennial Speakers Series. Smith will speak from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 20, at Tempe History Museum, 809 E. Southern Ave., Tempe.

The title of the talk is “For the Proper Protection of the Frontier: The National Guard Call-Up on the Mexican Border in 1916.” This PowerPoint presentation depicts one of the largest peacetime mobilizations of American troops in U.S. history.

Some believed at the time the Great Call-Up was part of the Army expedition to locate Pancho Villa, but the two events were related only because the expedition upset the Mexican government, which led to a small battle with guards along the border, Smith said.

“A lot of times they thought it was the pursuit with Pancho Villa,” Smith said. “They exchanged shots on occasion across the border. It was more of an event where they ended up being a run to get prepared for WWI, which these guys had no idea was going to involve them.”

This piece of history, Smith said, isn’t appreciated.

“This was a reaction to the Mexican Revolution, which was the big event,” he said.

Smith said the Centennial Speakers Series began last year as a collaborative program between the Tempe Public Library and the museum. He said librarian Ralph Brown approached him with the idea of presenting a series focusing on WWI’s centennial.

“Last year was the centennial of the beginning and that is basically how it grew,” Smith said.

The August topic is being held to pull a historical event out of the shadows to inform individuals, so they understand, appreciate and think about the Great Call-Up and how it relates to today.

Smith said he chose the Great Call-Up because it’s something most people are not aware happened.

“It’s events like these that are quite large and significant in the historical scheme of things,” Smith said. “It’s hard to say why people remember certain events and not others.”

While the Great Call-Up was not specific to the Tempe area, there were Tempe residents protecting the border at that time.

“The guard troops were let go from duty in late 1916, or the beginning of 1917,” Smith said. “The Arizona guys stayed until May or June in 1916 to March 1917. (There was) a real hardship for these guys.”

He said the Tempe service members had to pull up their roots from the area and go elsewhere.

“Arizona only became a state four years before,” Smith said of the Great Call-Up. “This was almost like the frontier rearing its head here in Tempe.”

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Sept. 24 through Sept. 27, Tempe Beach Park will welcome big names like Hozier, Kanye West and J. Cole to Summer Ends Music Festival. Yeah, that Kanye West.

Congratulations 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.

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ASU has signed on to create a new Engineering Research Center, which puts the total tally at three for the university. The new facility will focus on geotechnical engineering. Arizona is only one of three states with three or more ERCs.

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Mad Greens is now serving up two Arizona-inspired salads (“Doc Holliday” and “The F.L.W.”) featuring farmfresh, locally grown goodness from Abby Lee Farms and more. Offered exclusively here in Arizona as part of the permanent menu, the Doc Holliday salad boasts baby greens, grilled citrus chicken, MAD Spice pumpkin seeds, oranges, red onions and red grapes with Miso Sesame Vinaigrette.

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We know it’s hot out there, which of course means it’s pool time, but just a friendly reminder to keep those pool gates closed! Prevent drowning deaths and have fun the rest of this summer without the worry.

Grandma, grandpa and the whole family are invited to have pancakes with Sparky on the ASU campus during Grandparents Day Brunch with Sparky from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 12. Tickets are $10 for Sun Devil G e n e ra t i o n s Members and $16 to nonmembers.

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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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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

broke about half of them.

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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In just about every costume in today’s growing cosplay community, there are goggles at the forefront. The Tempe Public Library held a workshop to help kids make their own photo page events calendar goggles in any color or design. For information about the City’s future events, visit www.tempe.gov. Photos by Tiera Allen

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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.

WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 22, at 2 p.m.

WHERE: Tempe Town Lake, 620 N. Mill and 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Aug. 23, at Ave., Tempe 12 p.m.

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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Everyone’s favorite fairy tale is told with elegant hand puppets and two little mice rod puppets.

WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 5, at 10:30 a.m.

WHERE: Tempe Public Library, 3500 S. Rural Rd., Tempe COST: Free INFO: http://1.usa.gov/1N6tAhw

Join the group for a 40-minute High Five Program with books, fingerplays, songs, puppets and community playtime. Activities in Lapsit are developmentally appropriate for children ages newborn through 16 months.

WHEN: Wednesdays from 10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

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Pajamas are encouraged!

WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 1, from 6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

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No registration is needed but space is limited.

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Classes begin the week of Aug. 31 The fall Tempe Opportunities brochure features hundreds of programs for every interest, age and ability, including health and fitness, art, dance, special interest, sports, aquatics and boating offerings. You can view the brochure online or pick one up at a City of Tempe facility.

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skimmers, Mexican amberwings, blue dashers…even the names are colorful. Roger Racut guides this walk around the arboretum’s pond and water features to find and study these brilliant insects.

• Saturday, Sept. 12, at 8 a.m.—Learn Your Lizards: This guided walk isn’t just for kids. Anyone with a love for lizards and other reptiles will be fascinated as “Wildman” Phil Rakoci uses humor and his way with critters to entertain and educate.

The arboretum also offers history walks, photography workshops, home school day tours and more.

These days, my son is as likely to swipe my camera as he is to pose in front of it, but it’s nice to see this fam-

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“I don’t think he wants to leave,” my son commented. “I don’t blame him.”

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Corona del Sol has the second highest enrollment of the district’s seven schools, with nearly 3,000 students.

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Unprecedented success Tempe Union student athletes are looking forward to another competitive year on the fields and courts after unprecedented success in 2014-2015, winning 28 team and individual state championships. Desert Vista led the way with 14 state titles. Mountain Pointe won six, McClintock won three and Corona del Sol won five, including a historic fourth straight state basketball championship.

“We are very excited to get things ramped up here at Corona,” said Assistant Principal for Athletics Dan Nero.

“From brand new frosh tennis players being led by legendary Coaches Rick Wanta and Carol Sandvig, to Coach Mac and the hoops team shooting for a Championship 5-Peat, and everything in between, we are ready to go.”

Nero shared that Corona del Sol softball coach Jeep Ray and baseball coach Dave Webb were selected this summer by their peers as Arizona Interscholastic Association (AIA) Division I Coaches of the Year.

Corona also recently earned the AIA 4A/5A 2015 Directors Cup for reaching the pinnacle of excellence in high school athletics, activities, scholastics, service, community and characterbased initiatives.

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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

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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Yupha’s Thai Kitchen is everything a Thai restaurant should be.

It has charming Thai décor, reasonable prices, beautiful food presentation and a variety of entrees that feature everything from mild to spicy and sweet to savory flavors.

Lunch and dinner choices each have their advantages.

Lunch entrees include vegetable The traditional shrimp pad Thai is colorful, flavorsoup, a spring roll and a trip to ful and fresh. the salad bar. Dinner entrees, orchestrated with sautéed flat priced a few dollars higher, don’t include those items, but they do noodles, broccoli, egg and a sweet black soy sauce. The kids raved about feature much bigger portions.

On the day we tried Yupha’s Thai the food. Once more, the servings Kitchen, we opted for lunch. After were large and they took home the vegetable soup (flavorful without leftovers.

My oldest son ordered the pad nam being salty) and a trip to the salad mun hoy ($10.50) bar (where the made with shrimp, traditional peanut mushrooms, onions, dressing was a scallions, broccoli unique addition), and oyster sauce.

He’s I ordered the already a fan of Th ai shrimp pad Thai food and this dish ($10.50). didn’t last long. Next The vegetables thing I knew, there were fresh and were two grains of crisp, the shrimp rice left on the plate. was tender and We ordered two the peanut sauce The mango with sticky rice and flamdesserts.

The sticky was the perfect ing fried ice cream were both filling rice with mango blend of sweet desserts. ($7.50) came with and a hint of spice. The portion was large. Half of a kiss of coconut milk and was an it wound up going home to become outstanding Thai dessert that stuffed us to the gills. The flaming fried ice dinner that evening.

My husband ordered beef drunken cream ($7.50) was dunked in rum noodles ($8.50), a staple of Thai and set aflame in blazing glory at cuisine. The dish featured sautéed our table and that was a dessert large flat noodles with egg, Napa cabbage, enough for several people to share. tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, chili Yupha’s also has extensive selections peppers and Thai basil. The beef was of appetizers, curry dishes and chef lean, tender and flavorful. Yupha’s got specials. Just check the menu board bonus points because it served the at the front of the restaurant. dish mild, just as my husband had Yupha’s Thai Kitchen requested.

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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.

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With the release of its new album “Compass,” the local pop-rock band People Who Could Fly is finding its way.

The quintet is using its local fanbase to build a buzz regionally and nationally—and it’s all for a good cause. One dollar from each sale of “Compass” goes to Alice Cooper’s Solid Rock Foundation. The original shock rocker has been good to People Who Could Fly. “We were finalists last year in the ‘Proof is in the Pudding’ competition,” said Gilbert-based singer James Mills of Cooper’s annual contest that results in a spot in his Christmas Pudding concert.

“We weren’t chosen for the show, but we are one of six bands who is going to be on an album.”

That collection is a Christmas album set to be released this winter. Not only did the competition help promote the band, it improved it as well.

“We feel like we gained so much from the competition that we wanted to give back to the foundation,” Mills said. “A lot of it was stage presence.

We had been doing music for a long time and it got pretty solid. But the most important thing we can do is be great on stage. We worked really hard. In the spirit of Alice Cooper’s live show, we use theatrics to make it not only an auditory experience but a visual experience.”

People Who Could Fly has had plenty of support. Mills—who is joined in the band by ASU student Josh Paige, Jacob Paige of Ahwatukee, and Levi Siwek and Fletcher Milloy of Chandler—opened for 1980s favorites Howard Jones and Rick Springfield at the Good Life Festival at Encanterra in San Tan Valley last spring. Proving its versatility, it performed before rapper Wiz Khalifa at the Arizona State Fair.

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The local pop-rock band People Who Could Fly will perform Friday, Sept. 4, at SoZo Coffeehouse in Chandler.

the Solid Rock Foundation, People Who Could Fly does private shows for kids admitted to Phoenix Children’s Hospital.

“It was cool. They had a camera on us and they streamed the performance throughout the hospital,” Mills said. “A lot of kids started showing up because they liked what they showed on TV. I

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Bill Bellamy Using his experiences growing up in Newark, New Jersey, Bill Bellamy started doing stand-up comedy while he was meet your neighbor a student at Rutgers University. Since then, he has used his talent to make people laugh.

WHEN: Thursday, Aug. 20, through Sunday, Aug. 23, various times expensive homes WHERE: Tempe Improv, 930 E. University Dr., Tempe COST: $22 INFO: (480) 921-9877 or www.tempe. improv.com

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WHEN: Wednesday, Aug. 26, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WHERE: Connections Café, 3500 S. Rural Rd., Tempe COST: Free INFO: www.tempe.gov/library Clean Kings of Comedy Ken Kaz, Jon Jesmer, Bob Kubota, Jonathan Gregory and special guests prove comedians don’t have to be filthy to be funny.

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

WHERE: Tempe Center for the Arts Studio, 700 W. Rio Salado Pkwy., Tempe COST: $10 to $25 INFO: http://bit.ly/1DQX13W

Class Clowns Comedy Tony Vicich brings his long-running, stand-up comedy show “Class Clowns” to the TCA. WHEN: Friday, Aug. 21, from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Tempe Center for the Arts, 700 W. Rio Salado Pkwy., Tempe COST: $10 to $25 INFO: http://bit.ly/1PnGoOI

Higher Octave Healing: Music from the Heart Higher Octave Healing presents its sixth annual concert fundraiser to support music therapy services for those with developmental disabilities.

WHEN: Saturday, Aug. 29, at 1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

WHERE: Tempe Center for the Arts Studio, 700 W. Rio Salado Pkwy., Tempe COST: $5 and $12 INFO: http://bit.ly/1ILCMDN

Great Books The group discusses “Rothschild’s

Small Town America Tour Christian artists Fireflight, Seventh Day

Your Ideas=Your Library Help design the future of the Tempe Public Library at this town hall meeting.

WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 2, at 6 p.m.

WHERE: Tempe Public Library’s Meeting Room A, 3500 S. Rural Rd., Tempe COST: Free INFO: www.tempe.gov/ tempepubliclibrary hello FRIDAY Wash away a week’s worth of stress at hello FRIDAY happy hour.

WHEN: Friday, Sept. 4, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

WHERE: Tempe Center for the Arts Lounge, 700 W. Rio Salado Pkwy., Tempe COST: No cover charge INFO: http://1.usa.gov/1WmV1qm Jamie Kennedy The multitalented comedian-actorwriter-producer spends a weekend at the Improv.

WHEN: Friday, Sept.

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University Dr., Tempe COST: $22 INFO: (480) 921-9877 or www.tempe. improv.com Healing Field The Tempe Exchange Club hosts its 12th annual Healing Field flag display to honor victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 10, through Tuesday, Sept. 15, from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

WHERE: Tempe Beach Park, 54 W. Rio Salado Pkwy., Tempe COST: Free INFO: (480) 350-5200 Tempe Comedy Concert Series: Men vs. Women A comedic panel of uninformed experts take on marriage, equal pay and gender equality.

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

WHERE: Tempe Center for the Arts Studio, 700 W. Rio Salado Pkwy., Tempe COST: Visit www.tca.ticketforce.com for details INFO: www.tca.ticketforce.com ASU vs. Cal Poly The first home game of the season sees the Sun Devils against Cal Poly at Sun Devil Stadium.

WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 12, at 8 p.m.

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“They are trained to ask, ‘Do you have more than one system in your home?’ or ‘Do your kids have asthma?’” said Herman, who has 40 years’ experience in the HVAC industry.

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.

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