A new Scottsdale Quarter theater that offers a luxurious experience that includes premium seating, cocktail lounge, freshly made concession items and a restaurant can be found at iPic Theaters. Recently opened on December 17th.
Located at 15257 N. Scottsdale Rd. at the Scottsdale Quarter. Movie prices range from $14-$25 Sunday-Thursday, and $17.50-$25 Friday and Saturday. This does sound a little steep, but at least you know you won't be sitting next to teenagers making your movie going experience a living hell.
This would be an ultimate date-night or girls night out.
Over the weekend I met up with a girlfriend of mine and met at this new, chic wine bar called, The Living Room. They have two locations, one in Chandler, and one in Phoenix. The place was super cute, real chill and played good music. This is definitely not a night on the prowl to find a man. However it's definitely somewhere to take a date or to meet up with your girlfriends and giggle over cocktails. She and I enjoyed some bruchetta and wine. Very dope evening if you ask me. Definitely check it out if you're in the area.
Last night I took the bf out for his pre-birthday dinner, just us two and I've been wanting to try this new spot called Mabel's on Main (it used to be Mabel Murphy's for some of ya'll that remember).
I loved it. Very chic in the heart of downtown Scottsdale, so you know it's trendy. The only con that I have is if you plan on going just for dinner, go earlier than 10. LOL. We had reservations at 9:30 and well by 10:15 the Scottsdale "IT" crowd was already making their presence known. We were sitting in the middle of the restaurant surrounded by all the people. I felt like an animal on display as I devoured my Chicken Lollipop and blue cheese (seriously to die for), while the bf grubbed on bites of filet w/ horseradish (he said it was delish). I recommend getting their probably around 7 so you can enjoy your food. Also, don't go expecting a huge menu; it is very limited, yet very yummy.
Overall, I had a great time, with a great person, and enjoyed some nice drinks and food.
This is from their website:
Through the front door of Mabel's is our main lounge, where you will be immersed in the grandeur of a lost era. Studded leather seating, intricately embossed tin ceilings and dark wood furnishings are a throwback to times when sophistication and luxury were exclusive to all but a few. You will find our hand-crafted cocktails at your fingertips and a late-night menu at your disposal. The lounge is large enough to lose yourself in, if that is what you desire, yet small enough to feel subdued in an intimate setting.
Biltmore Fashion Park has brought back its popular "movies in the park" event. Every Friday night beginning at 7:30. Below is a list of the movies they will be showing. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to make it out last year, however if the bf's allergies don't bother him too much, I will be planning a few date nights. Hope to see you there.
Movies in the Park: The Godfather Bring the family or your sweetie for a movie night under the stars. Shown on the Center Lawn. March 20, 2009 Biltmore Fashion Park 2502 E. Camelback Road , Phoenix, AZ 85018 | 5 miles 602-955-8400
Movies in the Park: Breakfast Club Bring the family or your sweetie for a movie night under the stars. Shown on the Center Lawn. March 27, 2009 Biltmore Fashion Park 2502 E. Camelback Road , Phoenix, AZ 85018 | 5 miles 602-955-8400
Movies in the Park: From Russia with Love Bring the family or your sweetie for a movie night under the stars. Shown on the Center Lawn. April 3, 2009 Biltmore Fashion Park 2502 E. Camelback Road , Phoenix, AZ 85018 | 5 miles 602-955-8400
Movies in the Park: Vertigo Bring the family or your sweetie for a movie night under the stars. Shown on the Center Lawn. April 10, 2009 Biltmore Fashion Park 2502 E. Camelback Road , Phoenix, AZ 85018 | 5 miles 602-955-8400
Movies in the Park: Some Like it Hot Bring the family or your sweetie for a movie night under the stars. Shown on Center Lawn. April 17, 2009 Biltmore Fashion Park 2502 E. Camelback Road , Phoenix, AZ 85018 | 5 miles 602-955-8400
Movies in the Park: Doctor Zhivago Bring the family or your sweetie for a movie night under the stars. Shown on Center Lawn. April 24, 2009 Biltmore Fashion Park 2502 E. Camelback Road , Phoenix, AZ 85018 | 5 miles 602-955-8400
The bf is out of town this weekend, so we celebrated Valentines Day a few days early. Last night, I surprised him with this fancy ass meal..consisting of sun-dried tomato pesto with basil and goat cheese stuffed in chicken and then coated with Italian bread crumbs on a bed of mashed sweet potatoes and green beans. Seriously, I have to pat myself on the back because that ish was to die for. I also got him a few of his goodies that I know he likes and we popped a bottle of champagne (cheap of course, people are broke these days. LOL). And to my surprise, I got home today and there was a package waiting for me...kudos to my thoughtful bf. I heart you baby!
This is his gift to me!
This is what I got him
And this was from this past weekend in Cali. I've always wanted to do this in the sand. I can now scratch this off from my "To Do" list
Historic Downtown Glendale will be a chocolate lover’s paradise Feb. 6-8, as the 14th annual Glendale Chocolate Affaire celebrates with music, romance and an abundance of that sinfully delicious confection, as well as free admission and free parking!
Chocoholics will delight in the three dozen chocolate purveyors, discovering everything from chocolate-covered potato chips to chocolate chile pecans to goat milk fudge.
The Chocolate Affaire is sponsored by Arizona’s famous candy makers, Cerreta’s. The candy factory will offer tours all weekend, so visitors can get a behind-the-scenes look at how the chocolatiers create everyone’s favorite candy.
So, what goes better with chocolate than romance? The festival has become the largest gathering of national romance novelists in the Southwest. This symposium of literary romantics offers fans the opportunity to get up close and personal with authors, as well as the chance to attend free writing workshops given by the experts.
Families with children will enjoy myriad activities, including hands-on arts and crafts, face-painting and a rock-climbing wall. Horse-drawn carriage rides will be available throughout the weekend to take couples or families on a scenic, charming ride through the historic Catlin Court district.
Event hours are Friday 5 - 10 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday noon to 5 p.m. The event is located in the heart of Historic Downtown Glendale, in Murphy Park, located at 58th and Glendale avenues.
My company always has their "Holiday" party after the holidays. At first I used to think this was a little ghetto, but now I love it. It gives me something to look forward to after the holidays. It was this past Saturday night. And I really need to apologize to my babes.. I kind of ignored him on Saturday night... I wasn't exactly the best date. I kept leaving him and talking to people. Sorry my love. You're the greatest boyfriend...such a sport. I love you.
I think Rook was bored. LOL...he was building things.
The bf and I wanted to get into the holiday spirit so we headed to zoo lights on Saturday night. Word of advice, don't go on a Saturday night, ish is mad busy. Or if you do, go around 8:30'ish...that way most of the parents are taking the kids home by then so the park is a little less crowded. I absolutely loved it and it was a very romantic date night with my love.
My babes and I...and our kettle korn. Mmmm!
This is a pic of the walkway. Dope.
We spotted bigfoot in the bushes! Eeek Me, freezing my arse off!
The bf's Holiday party was this past Friday night at Dave & Busters. We ate, we drank, we played games, and we won 1700 tickets (well the bf did, but what's his is mine right? LOL). The pics are a Little crappy, but you get the jist.
Thanks to the BF's co-worker, he put us onto this game that just spits tickets out.
This is Thomas' tickets that he won while playing the game
After we left Bikini Lounge, we got in our cars and went about half a mile up the street to Chez Nous. Another hole-in-the-wall club, but this one had live music. When I stepped into the doors, I knew I wasn't in Kansas anymore. It was real dark only candles luminating the club. The band was doing their set and it was real funky/soul/blues/jazz type of sound. They were incredible. If you ever have a chance, hit up this spot. You won't be disappointed.
It was couples night on Friday night. Summer, Eric, the bf and I met up and hit some hole-in-the-wall places in downtown phoenix. Let me just say it was refreshing and so much fun to do something totally different than usual. We first hit up Bikini Lounge...real "Cheers" type of place. Seems like everyone knew everyone, and even though this was the case, they were still friendly to us outsiders. The lounge was decorated in well, Island stuff (tiki's, bamboo, etc) and the music was again, very islandy (yes, that's a word. LOL).
One of my favorite spots to go on a Saturday night isn't in Scottsdale, it's in the hood. LOL. Hidden House is a hole-in-the-wall spot that plays real hip hop and is just mad chill. The gang and I love to frequent it often...check out some pics from this past weekend.
The boyfriend doesn't do the whole Halloween thing and I didn't really have any place to go last night (doing the Halloween party thing tonight), so he and I decided to check out the new movie, Zack and Miri Make a Porno. I HATE going to the movies when it's crowded, but thankfully the theater was empty because everyone was out celebrating Halloween. The movie made me giggle out loud on more than one occasion, however, I left the movie feeling unsatisfied with the ending. Someone else go watch it and let me know what you thought about the ending!
I was lucky enough to win tickets to go see Jay-Z at the House of Blues for the American Gangster Tour. Jay is only doing a 5 city tour, so I was so fortunate to be able to see him. I had been trying to win tickets all week. I kept calling every day and every day it seemed as though I would get closer and closer to being the right caller (number 98). Thursday, I ended up being caller 89... so close, yet so far. It was weird, I had a dream Thursday night that I was going to win the tickets, and sure enough, Friday rolled around, and it was the last day for the contest. I heard Jay-Z make his announcement to call in and my little fingers did some major dialing. I was number 16, 36, 60, and 71. After I heard, "you're caller 71", I thought I was dunzo, until by some miracle, the line started ringing and ringing and ringing and ringing... and then I heard, "Power"... now this was different; she never answered with Power before, she always just said, "you're caller so and so", but this time was different, she said, "Power".. so I did my little schpill and what-do-you-know, I was caller 98!!!! Yay for me! While on the phone with her, I text my boyfriend, "Pack your bags. I won!!!!".. lets just say he was as estatic as was I. So this begins my one day journey to see Hova himself!
LA Here we come!!!
So my boyfriend and I get to the airport to find out our flight had been cancelled. Luckily, we were able to get on the next flight which was only an hour later. Unfortunately for us, the record label we won the tix from didn't include transportation with the contest. So it was up to my boyfriend and I to get from LAX to the hotel. We were going to cab it since the airport was only 15 mins from the hotel. BUT, come to find out, it would cost us about $50! Hell nah I wasn't going to pay that. That was madness! So instead, we just jumped in one of those Super Shuttles. You know the big blue vans where you share with other passengers?! It was $16 per person. A little more reasonable than $50! So we decided to do that. We had one of the craziest drivers ever!!!! He kept reading and texting while he was driving! Ugh, pay attention to the road, butthole! We finally made it to the hotel in one piece. Our hotel was actually very cute and quaint. It was in a residential area! We were the only winners of the contest that wasn't staying at the Hyatt across the street from the House of Blues (where Jay would be performing). But I kind of liked it that way. My boyfriend and I were on a small vaca. So nice to be away from the city (of Phx).
While in the hotel, my man gets on the phone with a friend of ours and starts talking about cars. I didn't want to be "that" girl, but um, hello, we're on vacation... STOP TALKING ABOUT CARS AND PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!! ... LMAO! Anyway, we got some food and just chilled out until the show.
It's showtime!
after our $10 taxi ride from the hotel to the House of Blues, we get out of the cab to a line wrapped around the building. Ugh, this was going to take forever for us to get into the HOB. We still didn't even have our tickets yet. We walked down a steap ass hill after asking someone where will call was, to only find out, will call had no idea where my tickets were. The lady running will call radio'd in to another person whom also said they had no tickets under my name. The lady at will call suggested we go back up the steap ass hill to the record exec will call line. We did as she suggested and hiked back up the hill past the growing crowd of Jay-Z fans. We get to the will call line, but have to wait another 15 minutes for them to open. As my boyfriend and I are standing there waiting, minding our own business, this short, bald, loser who thinks because he works at a record label he's some sort of record exec stands right in front of my boyfriend, literally inches from my mans face and starts yelling for one of his homeboys. I mean, I bet my boyfriend could feel the guys nasty hot ass breath on him. Now my man has more patience than I do, because I was ready to slap the taste out of dudes mouth. What the fuck is wrong with people? Have they never heard of personal space before? We're still waiting for the record label will call to open and the jackass that was screaming in my boyfriends face finally rounded up his posse and went up to the bouncer and asked him about getting in like he was some special celebrity. Dude slipt the bouncer some money I guess to try and look cool. who knows?!!? Anywho, the bouncer was like, "yo, you'll have to wait until the doors open." Muahh Muahhh Muahhh! I guess you're not as important as you thought you were dude. Ol' boy turned to his friends and said, "if it was any other night, we would get right in, but this night is a little caotic, so we have to wait a minute." Now, that shit was hilarious!!! Dude thought he was something important. I think that was the funniest shit all night!!!!
We finally got into the House of blues and found (what I thought) would be a good spot to watch the show. We were by the bar which was purched higher than the ground level of the venue. So I thought, we could see over the crowd. It wasn't too bad until everyone had the same idea as I did... it got hella crowded by the bar, but I guess it was still better than standing on the floor level in the "mosh pit". Oh, while we were waiting, the dj was spinnin tunes, and the other funniest shit I saw that night was when the dj threw on, Soulja Boys, Crank That, and the crowd started booing the shit out of the song!!! Why would a dj play that crap when you're at a Jay-Z concert?! Just because they're both "rap" doesn't mean they're the same thing damnit!
It's Hovy Baby!
We thought Jay was supposed to come on at 9pm, but he didn't get on stage until 10:30... I had been standing in my brand new heels from 7.. my little piggies were HURTING!!! But I was gonna have to suffer thru the pain because Jay was about to begin! Jay came out and the crowd went wild. It was craziness to see Jay. I've seen him before, but never like this. It was at a small venue so it was much more intimate. I kept looking over at my boyfriend and watching his face and watching him get sooo into Jay. He was going lyric for lyric with Jay. When Jay would pause, my boyfriend knew to pause too. It was crazy to see all the fans throwing their ROC signs in the air.. or their fists pounding in unison to the beat of the song. These fans were on some other shit that I've only seen with Prince fans. This admiration for Jay wasn't on some homo-stalker type shit. This was some admiration for Jay's passion and jay's struggle. I just kept stopping and looking at the crowd watching everyone. During Big Pimpin, Jay started out with maybe one lyric and the audience finished the rest of the song without Jay. Jay just stood on stage watching the crowd recite his song. I've been to other concerts where the artist would do that, but halfway thru the song, the audience would forget a few lyrics and kind of mumble words until the hook came on and they would all shout it. But not this crowd, this crowd new every line to Big Pimpin all the way through to the end. Shit was amazing to watch. It must be a great feeling for Jay. I'm so happy I was able to experience this with my boyfriend. I loved watching my man have such a good time! Jay brought Memphis Bleek, Freeway, Beanie Sigel, Diddy, and Jermaine Dupri all made a special appearance on stage. Although I was hoping for Nas and Pharrell to come out, but neither of them did.. Boooo!!!!
We all fall down!
I was standing next to some people from Phoenix who also won the tickets. We were all standing together when I look back and see one of the girls has fainted. Her boyfriend had a look of horror on his face as he was trying to hold her up. There was another girl standing there and we were all trying to fan the girl off who had fainted. The bartender was filling a towel with ice and putting it on her neck trying to cool her off. The bouncers finally got to the girl after nearly 5 minutes. Poor girl was lying on the floor. The bouncers took her outside.
My boyfriend was wearing this hoodie and he was sweating majorly, so I was worried he was going to get too hot and pass out too. I kept telling him to take his jacket off, but he just gave me a dirty look and told me to watch the show. Lol. I guess I'm not supposed to talk during a Jay concert. My fault. Lol. Well with all the smoke (cigs and funny cigs) that was filling the air and all the people and the fact that HOB didn't turn on the air started to make me feel a little sick and cluastrophobic, my body was telling me something wasn't right. I kept trying to get fresh air, but in there, no such luck. I looked at my boyfriend and told him I didn't feel too good. He told me to get some water. So I went to the bar and the bartender was tending to other people and the urge for water was growing rapidly. Like I needed a glass of water and I needed it NOW. I finally got my glass of water and started drinking it, but it wasn't helping. I started to get dizzy and it was like I wasn't in my own body. It was weird. By this time, my boyfriend turned and walked to me, and I told him, I don't feel good, I think I'm going to pass out. And sure enough, I fainted.... well not full on faint, but I was very disoriented. I remember hearing my boyfriend tell me "wake up, wake up". I think I said ok or something like that. But I recall kinda falling again, and he caught me. I looked at him and said something like, "catch me, I'm about to faint".. my body was telling me that I was about to blackout. It was crazy.. it was like giving me a warning. And sure enough, I totally fainted/blackedout! I don't remember anything. I guess during all of this, my boyfriend was holding all my stuff and trying to keep me from falling on the ground. One of the guys I had been standing next to came over to help my boyfriend, and they were both trying to hold me up. But of course I was just dead weight. The bouncers finally came and took me outside. On our way outside is when I started coming through. I could hear people saying they had my stuff and the bouncers telling someone to get water. When I went outside, they sat me next to the girl who had fainted right before me. Hahahaha! Her boyfriend was like, "I saw all the bouncers running in, I thought there was a fight."... oh no, it was just me! I drank water and the cold air made me feel so much better. After a few minutes, I got my self together and went back inside to finish the show. But this time, I stayed in the back away from the crowd! Ha!
Even though the night had its ups and downs, it was one of the best times I've had. I loved the show, I loved the experience, I loved the company I was with! I would do it all over in a heartbeat! Fainting and all. Lol!
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