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The days of Ahwatukee’s own fireworks show are long gone, the last one occurring in 2016.

The City of Chandler will celebrate the Fourth of July this year, but will do so without fireworks.

If it’s fireworks that you crave this Independence Day, choose your festivities carefully, as a number of Arizona communities have canceled their traditional fireworks displays. 

Jazz Appreciation Month events for 2022 in metro Phoenix range from Tempe Jazz Day to International Jazz Day at the Nash and Scottsdale Civic Center.

Phoenix local music picks for January include the Maines 8123 Fest, Danielle Durack, Sugaray Rayford, Club Placebo benefit, Paper Foxes, Fee Waybill.

After more than four decades teaching guitar, Prince Albert’s Byron Matice, owner of Byron’s Guitar Instruction is calling it a career. Since the 1970s Matice has been instructing numerous aspiring players and his final day will be June 30. “It’ll be absolutely surreal in that I wake up every morning getting my day ready to teach so it’s going to be so strange to not do that,” he told paNOW. “It will be bittersweet because I’ve loved this job. I can’t imagine doing any other ...