Category: Things to Do

🍖 The 14th annual KNIX Barbeque & Beer Festival returns to Tumbleweed Park in Chandler from noon-10 p.m. Saturday. The event features 30 barbecue pitmasters, beers and spirits, live music, a 6,500-square-foot ‘‘sports bar’’ with giant TV screens, a kids zone,

🚴🏽‍♂️ Bike-themed bar and grill Spokes on Southern in Tempe celebrates its 10-year anniversary with a party from 9 a.m.-close Saturday. Highlights include a disc golf tournament, a brunch buffet, DJ and live music, and an art sale. Twenty percent of all

🏀 March Madness, aka the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, tips off in earnest today, and a new viewing option this year is The Park, which opened last August next to OHSO Brewery in downtown Gilbert. The outdoor venue will host several public watch

🎟 The 33rd annual Ostrich Festival runs today through Sunday at Tumbleweed Park in south Chandler. Besides dozens of shows and attractions (and roaming ostriches, of course), there will be plenty of traditional fair fare, from corn dogs to ice cream

🍷 Kudos to Provision in uptown Phoenix for the idea of hosting a ‘‘Step Brothers’’-themed Catalina Wine Mixer from 6-10 p.m. Saturday. The event will feature live music, wine, snacks, a costume contest, an ’80s-themed photo booth, and, of course, a dinosaur. If you have

🇮🇹 The eight annual Italian Festival – featuring food, live music, art, exotic cars, kids activities, and more – will take place 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Sunday at Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. Tickets are $10 in advance

🍖 SanTan Brewing and Pedal Haus Brewery will co-host the inaugural Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival this weekend at A.J. Chandler Park in downtown Chandler. The family-friendly event starts at 4 p.m. Friday and ends at 11 p.m. Saturday. Presale tickets are $15 for Friday,

👩‍🍳 AZ Women in Food, a group created in 2021 to support woman-led local food businesses, has changed the location of ‘‘Gold. Glamour. Gourmet.’’ The event featuring tasting stations, wine, cocktails, a DJ, and burlesque entertainment will take place 5-9 p.m.

🍖 The 71st annual Laveen BBQ Festival, the community’s largest event, takes place 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday at Caesar Chavez Park (map). Besides a variety of smoked meats, there will be live entertainment, games and activities, and more than 100 vendors. Admission

💪 One of the funnest events of Arizona Beer Week – the Pink Boots Arm Wrestling Throwdown – takes place at 6 p.m. tonight at QuartHaus in downtown Chandler. The top women in Arizona’s beer industry will compete for this year’s championship belt. There

Pedal Haus Brewery will host a Mardi Gras celebration from 2 p.m.-midnight Saturday on the rooftop of its downtown Phoenix location. Festivities will include spicy jambalaya, shrimp po’boys, and Hurricane drink specials, as well as live music and, of course, plenty

Queen Creek Olive Mill celebrates its ninth annual Canada Week 🇨🇦 today through Sunday, Feb. 26, with a Canadian-inspired menu (including poutine, beavertails, and Molson beer), an arts festival on Saturday, a sangria social on Feb. 25, and the launch of the mill’s

With Valentine’s Day looming next week, Downtown Mesa is hosting a fun-loving Pal-entine Besties Booze Crawl for you and your friends from 4-9 p.m. Thursday. 🗺 What: For $10 per person ($15 at the door), you get a map of seven

SanTan Brewing and Pedal Haus Brewery in downtown Chandler are teaming up to launch a new event – the Beer, Bourbon, Barbeque & Bands Festival – on March 3 and 4. What: The event will feature food Valley barbecue restaurants,

Iron Chef Masaharu Morimoto will make two Valley appearances on Friday, Feb. 3, to promote his new premium sake collaboration Junmai Daiginjo. Stop #1: Morimoto will greet fans at the Costco at 15255 N. Hayden Road, Scottsdale, from 10:30 a.m.-12:30

Jan. 14: Copperstate Beer Festival at Riverview Park in Mesa. Jan. 27-29: Arizona Wine Festival at Heritage Square in downtown Phoenix. Jan. 28-29: Street Eat Food Truck Festival at alt River Fields in Scottsdale. Feb. 4: Southwest Cajun Fest at

Mingle & Graze in downtown Chandler will host Holiday Cheese & Wine Tastings at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13, and Thursday, Dec. 15. What: Participants will enjoy six cheeses, four Spanish wines to pair with them, and some other goodies.

Downtown Phoenix’s Found:Re boutique hotel, which has a long history of creative theme dinners, will host a ‘‘Die Hard’’-themed holiday dinner at 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 17. In an homage to the 1988 cult classic starring Bruce Willis, the hotel’s

The third annual AZ Barrels, Bottles & Brews – a festival featuring local craft brews, spirits and wines – takes place 2-5 p.m. Saturday on the centerfield concourse at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale. Participants: More than 25 of the

Beer N’ Bones, one of the Valley’s more unusual craft beer events, will take place 6-10 p.m. Friday  at the Arizona Museum of Natural History in downtown Mesa. What: The 21-and-over fundraising event features craft beers 🍺, food trucks 🚚,