Hi Neighbor!
My friends love the tribute concerts in Corte Bella, which always sell out. Often they can’t tell the tribute from the original, maybe because it’s been over 40 years since they heard the original. Attending a performance in CB, Sun City West or Surprise also keeps them off the highways at night. The Presbyterian church around the corner often has concerts, and the West Valley Symphony plays nearby in Surprise. Music isn’t your only choice. One couple takes the visiting sister to anything horse-related: rodeos, horse shows and races in Buckeye, Morristown and the AZ State Fairground. Guys might enjoy auto museums (one in Glendale) or local car shows in Corte Bella and Sun City West. The west valley also has the wildlife zoo at the 303 and Northern, Lake Pleasant for boating, dining and fishing, and a Peoria theater company for Broadway fans. Spring training games are in Surprise, Peoria and Glendale, and the Westgate Entertainment District is near the Cardinals’ stadium. Further west, Wickenburg has cowboy museums and a performing arts venue.
Downtown, reached via Grand Avenue to avoid the freeways, offers the Phoenix Art Museum, Heard Museum, Japanese Friendship Garden, Arizona Science Center and Victorian architecture at The Square PHX, all in daylight. The Diamondbacks (some day games), Mercury and Suns also play downtown. Blues and jazz abound too; check the KJZZ jazz calendar. One highfalutin couple attends every opera and ballet performance possible, mostly downtown, some as matinees. The valley has nearly 20 symphony orchestras, but they fall asleep to the music. Like the lady down the street says, you make better choices when you plan ahead. One man gives the grandchildren the car keys and a couple hundred bucks and suggests where they can disappear. He’s talked out after two days, so he schedules three days in the middle for them to explore alone. Smart thinking. (Hey! Send them to Tlaquepaque’s Día de los Muertos in Sedona.)
Submitted by G. G. Wosi, Corte Bella resident
8 Estrella Publishing - CB Living magazine
October 2026
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