If you’re looking to fill your weekend’s social calendar, Downtown Phoenix offers the perfect blend of urban nightlife, culture, family friendly events, dining, and live music.
Grab a slice of pizza from Downtown’s newest pizza parlor, Downtown Pizza Lounge (144 E. Washington St.). Phoenix Suns assistant coach and former shooting star Dan Majerle opened this lunch spot last week next door to his flagship bar and restaurant, Majerle’s. Chow down on huge $3 pizza slices (popular varieties like pepperoni, sausage, Margherita, etc.) while getting your SportsCenter fix. Downtown Pizza Lounge might stay open late depending on Downtown’s event calendar.
Friday at 5:30 p.m., Coach & Willie’s hosts Super Date for Super Nate, a benefit dinner and poker tournament for Nate Dinoffria and his family. Please read Nate’s story here. A dinner ticket is $25, a spot in the poker tournament is $50, and dinner and poker can be had for the unbeatable price of $65. You may also sponsor a poker table for $250. For more information about Nate and this event contact dmobilia@aol.com
Thursday night, Kincaid’s (2 S. 3rd St.) spotlights San Tan Brewing Company’s craft beers with special happy hour pairings from 5-7 p.m. Try San Tan’s famous Hop Shock IPA with ground Kobe beef bites or their Sex Panther Double Chocolate Porter with black-crusted smoked sirloin.
Fans of FX Network’s raunchy fantasy football sit-com “The League,” can see one of the show’s stars, Steve Rannazzisi (you’ll be quizzed on the spelling of that name at the door), perform his “You’re Either In Or You’re Out” routine at Stand Up Live Thursday-Sunday. Tickets are just $15 and parking is free when you validate at the CityScape garage.
Take the kids to see Disney On Ice’s “Toy Story 3″ at US Airways Center Thursday-Sunday. Tickets are $14-$68, which is pretty cheap fare to go to infinity and beyond.
Check out local favorites What Laura Says (pictured, left) at Downtown’s hippest new lounge and music venue Crescent Ballroom, Friday at 8:30. Tickets are $8-$10. While you’re there, try Crescent’s already legendary signature cocktail, the Honey Badger.
Speaking of live music, the Chris Parker Project will be playing its scintillating blend of Motown and 70s funk Friday night at Copper Blues starting around 8:30 pm. No cover!
Herberger Theater Center rolls out a few shows this weekend, including “My Mother’s Italian, My Father’s Jewish & I’m In Therapy” Thursday-Sunday ($39.50-$49.50), and psychological thriller “9 Circles” in the Kax Theater Thursday-Saturday ($16-$20).
Irish folksters Trevor Jones and Nick Heyward play at The Turf Pub (705 N. 1st St.) 4 p.m. to 1 a.m.
The Phoenix Symphony presents “Pictures At An Exhibition” Thursday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Symphony Hall. Tickets start at $18.
There’s also Food Truck Friday (11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.) and Saturday Market (8 a.m. to 1 p.m.) at Phoenix Public Market, “Monster Manual, Venom, Busy Bones” at Arizona Science Center, and the kid-friendly Fourth Sunday Jam at Civic Space Park (5 p.m.) featuring DJ DJentrification.
Have a great weekend in Downtown Phoenix!
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A – is for Angela, that charming pharmaceutical saleswoman you met on last fall’s Crawl. Things didn’t work out for you two long-term but that doesn’t make the memory any less sweet.
May’s Spring Fling crawl brought together more than 750 people who had a whopping good time (and hopefully, remembered it the next day). Next Saturday’s event will be even bigger, with a record number of pubs participating. Each location will offer drink/food specials exclusive to Pub Crawlers. See below for a full list, but first, here’s a quick look-see at a few of the locations:
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Super Sunday Downtown
Friday, January 27th, 2012The last time the Giants and Patriots met in the Super Bowl the game was played in our backyard at University of Phoenix Stadium.
Phoenix has to wait until 2015 to host another Super Bowl but this year’s Giants/Patriots rematch can be celebrated at a variety of Downtown restaurants, pubs, bar, lounges, and watering holes.
Coach & Willie’s
One of Downtown’s favorite sports bars is offering a complimentary buffet from 4 p.m. to halftime, food and drink specials, and a chance to win 2 sets of lower-level Rattlers season tickets.
The music venue’s “Pabst It To Me, I’m Open” Super Bowl party will feature the big game on the lounge’s big screen, plus $2 Pabst, $5 Honey Badgers, $6 Nachos, and homemade Cracker Jack, all starting at 3 p.m.
District American Kitchen & Wine Bar
Enjoy a Super Bowl menu that will satisfy any football fan, including $1 sloppy Joe sliders, cheesy corn dogs, baked macaroni & cheese, Schreiner’s beer hot sausages, plus half-priced bottles of wine and other drink specials all day.
Friday’s Front Row
Friday’s Front Row at Chase Field is offering all-you-can-eat hot wings. Chow down and watch the game on one of their 32 flat screen TVs.
Hooters Arizona Center
Is there a better place to spend a full day soaking up all the Super Bowl hoopla? Probably not, and to make it even sweeter Hooters will serve you 20 traditional wings and 60 ounces of beer for $20. That’s real. While you’re enjoying the game and surroundings enter to win a new flat screen TV.
Majerle’s Sports Grill
Downtown Dan and the gang are offering $3 Bloody Marys, bottomless mimosas, and all day breakfast.
Mi Amigos
Mi Amigos at Arizona Center is serving drink specials and discounted party platters all day long.
Networks
The Hyatt Regency Phoenix sports bar is offering a beer bucket special all day long: 5 Coors Light or Miller Lite bottles for $15.
Rose & Crown Pub
It’s a seafood bash and Downtown’s famous English pub, with all-you-can-eat seafood boil–crawfish, lobster, crab, mussels, potatoes, corn on the cob, and sausage–for $20 from 1-5 p.m.
Steve’s Greenhouse Grill
Inside or out on the patio, enjoy a dozen wings and a micro brew beer for $8.95, or a burger and fries for $8.95, plus $3 touchdown shots, $1.75 Miller Lite specials, and happy hour well drinks all day.
Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery
Spend your Super Bowl Sunday at CityScape with the Tilted Kilt girls and enjoy their tailgate breakfast menu until 11 a.m., then drink specials all day while you catch the action on 3 giant projection screens and 37 plasmas inside and out on the patio.
Tom’s Tavern & 1929 Grill
Tom’s is serving a special Super Bowl brunch all day long.
Enjoy the game!
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