Eating Christmas: Chow Bella's Third Annual Holiday Literary Event Goes Down Dec. 16 at Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix

Hey, what are you doing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 16? Wrong answer. You're heading downtown to Crescent Ballroom to hear some of the Valley's best writers bite down on the holidays, in the form of "Eating Christmas" -- our third annual Christmas/Food mash-up. Here's the lineup:...

By Amy Silverman

December 4, 2014

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Hey, what are you doing at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, December 16?

Wrong answer. You're heading downtown to Crescent Ballroom to hear some of the Valley's best writers bite down on the holidays, in the form of "Eating Christmas" -- our third annual Christmas/Food mash-up.

Here's the lineup:

Becky Bartkowski Josh Chesler Katie Johnson Judy Nichols Robrt Pela Kim Porter Julie Peterson Sativa Peterson Deborah Sussman Jason Woodbury

You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll definitely get hungry -- which is why it's a good thing there will be food and drink available for purchase at Cocina 10. Admission is free, although we'd love it if you bring a canned good or two to benefit St. Mary's Food Bank.

This is one of our favorite nights of the year. Hope to see you there.

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Amy Silverman is the former managing editor of Phoenix New Times. She is a two-time winner of the Arizona Press Club’s Journalist of the Year award. Her work has appeared on the radio show This American Life and in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Lenny Letter, and Brain, Child.