Nestled at the east end of this 65-acre park are four regulation-size, rim-rocking basketball courts with some of the most competitive games around town. Each court is lighted for nighttime hoopin’, and the lanes are painted purple and orange (an ode to the Phoenix Suns), which kind of makes you feel like a pro. If […]
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In a time when most of our tax dollars go into things we can’t use (like corporate loopholes and kickbacks), the City of Gilbert has built what is by far the best rec center in metro Phoenix, and offers its use to all Valley residents for a fraction of what it costs to work out […]
Retro furnishings such as orange shag rugs and chrome diner tables are back in style, and vintage-style threads dominate the runways. That’s why we love Glen Fair, an old-school alley in Glendale with beige stucco walls and a curvaceous sign that mimics the monogramming on your dad’s old polyester bowling shirt. There are league nights […]
On the Dinosaur Course at Gold Canyon Golf Resort, central Arizona’s most spectacular mountains are on full display as you play one of Arizona’s most impressive golf courses. Nowhere else do you feel like you’re getting the vistas you’d find on a long, challenging hike when you’re actually in a golf cart. The Dinosaur Course, […]
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In a golf-centric metropolis like ours, one private club was designed with purists in mind: The Golf Club Scottsdale. Like any other private club, membership is limited (to 350 members in this case) and expensive ($110,000 gets you in the door). But it’s what The Golf Club Scottsdale doesn’t have that sets it apart – […]
The Goodyear Ballpark, built in 2009, hosts the Cleveland Indians and Cincinnati Reds for their preseason practice and home games and has two very cool and unique features. The first and best is a mini-diamond, located beyond the right field foul line, for kids and families to play on during games. This space epitomizes a […]
One of dozens of skate parks in Arizona, the Goodyear Skate Park is a favorite for skaters, thanks to a design that works for both amateurs and pro-skaters.For Goodyear’s concrete playground, SITE Design Group included a full-pipe capsule, a 280-foot-long snake run with multiple hips and extensions, an 11-foot-deep peanut bowl with traditional pool tile […]
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Handcrafted is a makerspace and workshop designed to experience pre-electric technologies for collaboration and learning. This immersive space will let you roll up your sleeves and use vintage tools – from a Kelsey letterpress to a treadle sewing machine, and a pedal scroll saw to a pastry cutter.
Since 1997, the folks running Hohokam Stadium have kept the price of the lawn seats at five bucks. Five bucks to watch the Cubbies, for God’s sake! Five bucks to watch the ebullient Cubs fans before the Cubs have been able to begin losing any real games, when Cubs fans are still happy-go-lucky drunks rather […]
We played all sorts of sports in our younger days, but when it came to baseball, strikeout was our middle name. That’s until Daddy took us to Main Street, Mesa just west of Gilbert Road to this batting range where a friendly fellow took us into the slow-pitch baseball cage and taught us to stop […]
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When local off-road racer “Pistol” Pete Sohren closed his Speedway indoor kart-racing business, Valley go-kart enthusiasts weren’t left with many options – that is, until national chain K1 Speed opened a Phoenix location in the old Speedway building. Visitors can now enjoy all the medium-octane (45 miles per hour, max) excitement of whizzing around an […]