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Chandler Ostrich Festival rescheduled again for March 2022; will run for two weekends Chandler Ostrich Festival and last updated 2021-05-13 19:12:41-04 CHANDLER, AZ — The 32nd Chandler Ostrich Festival has been rescheduled again. This time, the festival is scheduled to return in March 2022 for back-to-back weekends, a first for the East Valley festival. The new dates for the festival are March 11-13, 2022, and March 17-20, 2022 at Tumbleweed Park in Chandler. There will also be a special S...

KXT’s Song Of The Day: Jon Batiste, Coldplay, Joywave, Stevie Wonder, Pointer Sisters It’s another week full of tunes curated with your enjoyment in mind! Our Song Of The Day airs every weeknight at 8pm during Gini Mascorro’s nightly show but we understand life can get busy and you may have missed it the first time around. Fear not, we have you covered. We’ve recapped them all here for you, laid out what makes each song so special, and for added enjoyment we’ve put them all into a han...

Heard in such a compact format, some of the songs sound similar with lots of repeated choruses that are less captivating from your theater seat than when you’re dancing to them in a club or at a wedding. But Jacobs’ cast – Syreeta Shonteé, Ariel Blue, Stephanie Zandra and Delores McKenzie – performs them with great spirit and a style that echoes, without mimicking, the originals.   And it is clearly a nostalgic throwback for members of Saturday’s opening night audience, who were e...

TWO friends are taking on a four-day challenge to raise money for a children’s hospice. Childhood friends, Ryan Hodd, 23, and Billy Kewley, 24, are walking 132 miles from Bournemouth Pier in Dorset to Hastings Pier in East Sussex. The duo are undertaking the challenge to raise money for a children’s hospice called Chestnut Treehouse. Chestnut Tree House cares for 300 children and young adults, up to the age of 19, who suffer from progressive life-shortening conditions. Ryan and Bill...

Body Zach LaVine is poised to make his return to the floor on Thursday night in Charlotte after missing the past 11 games in NBA health and safety protocols. He shined light on what his past few weeks looked like when speaking to the media on Wednesday. Zachs back! So unpack, because you know this means hell attack. "Come back and play my game and be me," a-finally-out-of-Covid-quarantine Zach LaVine told reporters before the Bulls departed for Thursdays game in Charlotte. "Im not going to be g...

St. Vincent Takes a Walk on the Wild Side on Her New Album Daddys Home Annie Clark, also known as St. Vincent, performs onstage Larry Busacca/Getty Images for Coachella Like David Bowie before her, Annie Clark, the innovative singer-songwriter-guitarist who goes by the stage name of St. Vincent (the moniker, she says, comes from a line in a Nick Cave song), has come up with alter egos tied to each of her albums. For 2011s Strange Mercy, she told Billboard, she was a "housewife on pills;" for ...

A second revue, “Sistas in the Name of Love,” featuring hits by such legendary female stars as Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Gladys Knight and the Pointer Sisters, will be presented in the theater’s parking lot Saturday through June 6. By the fall, founder and Artistic Director Nate Jacobs and Executive Director Julie Leach expect to once again produce shows in their brand new theater building, which was able to host just two productions before the pandemic outbreak. Leach said seating ...

Fans of Richard Thompson — whose admirers range from Bonnie Raitt and Bob Dylan to the members of Los Lobos and Dinosaur Jr. — know he has long been critically acclaimed as one of the finest and most distinctive guitarists and singer-songwriters on either side of the Atlantic. They also know he helped create English folk-rock in the 1960s as a member of Fairport Convention, a pioneering London band with which Jimi Hendrix liked to sit in and jam. And fans know Thompson has been a prol...

Print Fans of Richard Thompson — whose admirers range from Bonnie Raitt and Bob Dylan to the members of Los Lobos and Dinosaur Jr. — know he has long been critically acclaimed as one of the finest and most distinctive guitarists and singer-songwriters on either side of the Atlantic. They also know he helped create English folk-rock in the 1960s as a member of Fairport Convention, a pioneering London band with which Jimi Hendrix liked to sit in and jam. And fans know Thompson has been a pro...