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2012 Stories by Julie Peterson

• Out of the Box

  published May 17, 2012

  Arizona's hardest-working female playwrights prepare scripts for Arizona Women's Theatre Company's annual Pandora Festival of New Works, named... More >>

• Brazilian Little Pieces

  published May 10, 2012

  Acclaimed author Ann Patchett loves her comfy home and indie bookshop in her native Nashville. But she loves readers, too, so she's... More >>

• Drag Ball

  published May 10, 2012

  La Cage aux Folles, the drag-infused musical comedy about actual family values, leads a charmed life: The 1973 French play that became... More >>

• Orange Bounty

  published May 3, 2012

  Downtown's up-and-coming Orange Theatre Group is bringing back the kind of obtusely symbolic, performance-arty happening that makes people riot... More >>

• Color Story

  published May 3, 2012

  Painter Mark Rothko was opinionated, annoying, and perhaps a little nuts. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) People have allegedly... More >>

• Eataly

  published April 26, 2012

  Like any celebrity, Food Network chef Giada De Laurentiis gets grief for being who she is: the granddaughter of a legendary film director (not... More >>

• Eat, Play, Grub

  published April 19, 2012

  The Scottsdale Culinary Festival's still going strong in its 34th year. Let's not discuss putting everything end to end (because most of it... More >>

• Family Circus

  published April 19, 2012

  Some jukebox musicals try to wrap an invented storyline around an oeuvre of pop hits, but Dream a Little Dream doesn't have to resort to that,... More >>

• Rising Action

  published April 12, 2012

  During The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we couldn't stop visualizing our skinny little ex-co-worker Kay. You see things in your head when you... More >>

• Myth Lusters

  published April 12, 2012

  Some of us yahoos have to take it for granted that 18th-century composer Christoph Willibald Gluck made important advances in the art of opera... More >>

• The Raconteurs

  published April 5, 2012

  Before audiobooks, before books of any kind, we humans delighted in the oral tradition -- of storytelling, that is. (Other delights are, shall... More >>

• What Women Haunt

  published April 5, 2012

  Isabel Allende's trippy, political, multigenerational 1982 novel The House of the Spirits is a good match for the highly visual,... More >>

• Skinny on Dippin'

  published March 29, 2012

  You're gonna feel like a noob if the town of Maricopa's eighth annual Salsa Festival is your first, but you'll be an excited, happy noob,... More >>

• Days in Armor

  published March 22, 2012

  Huzzah for massive unemployment! Along with fine weather and site upgrades, it promises a hearty turnout of pre-registered participants in... More >>

• Flapper's Delight

  published March 22, 2012

  In our younger and more vulnerable years our father gave us some advice that we've been turning over in our mind ever since. Other than that,... More >>

• Three's Company

  published March 15, 2012

  As Schoolhouse Rock! taught us, "Three is a magic number." The proof's in the pudding of what happens when you travel or, God forbid,... More >>

• Wordsmith of the Day

  published March 8, 2012

  Phoenix is fortunate to be home to plenty of awesome poets who are unfamous and, often, nearly jobless -- we get to enjoy them while they still... More >>

• Letter Man

  published March 8, 2012

  Minority troops had seen a lot by the time they came home from World War II, and the status quo became a no-go, lighting a fire under the civil... More >>

• Smart Guy

  published March 1, 2012

  Joshua Foer probably never forgets is that he is, as writers tend to describe him, novelist Jonathan Safran Foer's younger brother. But big... More >>

• Boarder Crossing

  published February 23, 2012

  If you mourn the departure of RandomCon from the Valley’s strategic gaming scene -- and really, who doesn’t? -- cheer up at the... More >>

• Punch Drunk Love

  published February 16, 2012

  A few highlights of Arizona Cocktail Week: -"Whiskey School: Bourbon," 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday, February 19, $25 admission. Crazy learning, tastings... More >>

• Dead or Alive

  published February 16, 2012

  Dramatist, poet, and composer Federico García Lorca -- a classically educated Spaniard who was best known for writing about Gypsies and... More >>

• Weird Sisters

  published February 9, 2012

  Had we, like the heroines of Wicked, attended Shiz University, we'd be a powerful sorceress now. (Woulda been handy when we learned that... More >>

• Joy of Cooking

  published February 2, 2012

  Chocolate and peanut butter pot pie with grape jelly sauce and malted milk ice cream! When an event features star pastry chef Tracy Dempsey,... More >>

• Across The Sea

  published January 26, 2012

  Would a sequel to Madama Butterfly bring in the NCIS investigators? After all, the tragedy falls right in the lap of U.S. Navy... More >>