tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86339130662357181052024-02-08T04:02:55.243-08:00phoenix duiThe legal and political climate in the greater Phoenix Metro area makes it perhaps the worst place in the country to be accused of DUI. Even a first offense can result in upwards of a month in jail. Because the potential penalties are so heavy, an experienced DUI attorney can make a huge difference in your case. phoenix dui,phoenix dui attorney,phoenix dui lawyer,phoenix dui attorneysUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-87680185306331334792010-04-01T04:28:00.000-07:002010-04-01T04:28:00.300-07:00When does the movie harry potter and the order of the phoenix come out<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;">Cheerio from London! I will tell you all about my incredible trip here including a sneak peak of Heathrow's new Terminal 5 (T5), next week. But for now, we're heading out to Arizona for a quick 24-hour visit. We're going to spend the night at the Camelback Inn and get the inside scoop from US Airways about what to expect from them and other American legacy carriers. If that doesn't get you excited, then why not join Lisa Tucker McElroy as she checks into the St. Julien Hotel & Spa in Boulder, Colorado? Or, take a spin on a WWII B-17 with Chuck Taylor. Whatever you choose, you're in for an adventure!<br />
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<b>TAMPA TO LOS ANGELES</b><br />
Last week, I left off from the Florida Gulf Islands. From nearby Tampa, I flew five hours back to Los Angeles before my big trip – and I mean BIG. I'm currently on the first leg of an around-the-world journey. I thought I had a few days at home to get my affairs in order before I was off like Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg (in less than 80 days, of course!) but I got a last minute invitation to Phoenix to meet with US Airways. I just couldn't turn down an inside scoop, no matter how pressed for time I was.<br />
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<b>WHAT TO PACK</b><br />
Within two hours, I was at LAX ... sounds like my trip to the<b>Super Bowl</b>, <b>huh</b>? US Airways offered to fly me out early the following morning but with Arizona being one hour ahead, who wants to get up at 5am to make an 8:30am meeting? Not me. My one mistake was waiting too long to decide what to pack. By the time I looked at the clock, it was just an hour before flight time. Yikes! Fortunately, I only live 10 minutes from the airport so I scrambled to get everything together, including printing my boarding pass. What I learned from this oversight is that when you don't plan ahead, you end up lugging more than you need. Since I didn't have time to really think about what to pull out of my heavy, stocked computer bag (chargers, magazines, cameras, medicines ... ), I ended up taking the whole darned thing. Turns out, I was traveling with the same amount of baggage as I had on my around-the-world trip and I was just going to Arizona for a night. Not smart, I know, but at least it was still only carry-on.<br />
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<b>PARKING AT LAX</b><br />
I arrived at LAX at 3:30pm and parked my car at Park One. Park One is my favorite parking lot at LAX since it's the closest to the airport and is literally across the street from Terminal 1, which services US Airways and Southwest. This proximity saves even more time; there's no need to wait for a courtesy van – just make the 50-yard dash. It wasn't raining so I passed on valet parking ($21.75) and self-parked for $15. <b>Tip 1:</b> If you have an AAA or a Southwest card, be sure to flash them for the 10% and 15% discounts respectively. <b>TIP 2:</b> To guarantee a spot, book in advance online using ParknFlyNetwork.com. This site can also be used to book any airport parking lot across the U.S. For lots outside of the PNF network, log ontoAirportParkingReservations.com. This gives travelers peace of mind and saves both time and money.<br />
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<b>LAX TO PHOENIX</b><br />
The US Airways 737-300 series plane was not only old and ratty, but was packed with limited overhead space. If you're bringing bags on-board, be sure to board early to guarantee your spot. The good news is that this former America West plane (the logos were still on the seats) as well as the 737-400 will be removed from the US Airways fleet by 2011. That's right, they're retiring the 737! Most of the passengers on the flight were connecting from international flights from Asia or the South Pacific, so most everybody slept in a jetlag-induced coma. As for me, I just gave an evil stare at the fat hairy man encroaching upon my limited space. The flight attendants came around just once to serve drinks but nothing to munch on for the hour-long flight. I'm not complaining ... my Buddha belly didn't need any fattening snacks, anyways.<br />
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<b>SKY HARBOR AIRPORT TO HOTEL</b><br />
There's something about arriving in <b>Arizona</b> at sunset that gets me all worked up inside … in a good way. Seeing the warm desert light blanket the Camelback Mountains is special. When we landed on time, I made a beeline to the taxi stand. There was no line of passengers, just vacant taxis, most with African drivers waiting patiently. After the first five minutes, the meter read $10 and I quickly realized why there was no line. It would have been cheaper to rent a car but I really didn't want to deal with the PHX rental car return. That place is a nightmare. The Camelback Inn, a JW Marriott Resort in Scottsdale, was about a 20-minute, $35 (without tip) drive in a metered taxi. However, on the way back, the hotel hooked me up with Town Transportation. These guys provide a plush town car and charge $5 less! My driver's name was Gizachew Dessie (he was from Ethiopia) and he's available 24 hours at 602-754-2506. <b>NOTE:</b> He usually needs 45 minutes advance notice.<br />
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<b>CAMELBACK INN</b><br />
Sometimes I think I could be a spokesperson for the Marriott because I have stayed at so many of their hotels, all around the world. What can I say? They offer a great product and I'm accruing mad Marriott Rewards points. The <b>Camelback Inn</b> is unlike my last JW Marriott experience. The 17-story Ihilani resort in Honolulu was nice but lacked personality and could have been located anywhere in the world. But that's not the case with the<b>Camelback Inn</b>. This 453-room hotel isn't a high rise. It's just one- to two-floor <b>Pueblo-style casitas</b> spread throughout the resort's 125-acre <b>desert landscape</b>. The best part: The interiors are designed with traditional <b>southwestern decor</b>. I was only a couple hundred miles from Los Angeles but it felt like a world away.</span><br />
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When I arrived, a friendly bellhop greeted me the moment I stepped out of the taxi. He took my bags and explained that once I checked in, he would take me to my room in a golf cart. They are building a new lobby so this one was just a makeshift one, but even though it was small, with just one desk clerk, it still took just two minutes to get my room key ... and there was an arriving guest ahead of me. In the end, I didn't really need to be whisked to <b>my room</b> in an electric golf cart as it was just 50 yards away but I suppose it's nice to be Miss Daisy once in a while, even if just for a moment.<br />
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<b>THE ROOMS</b><br />
I just love <b>Southwestern-style rooms</b> ... the curtains, the <b>embroidered pillowcases</b> and the handcrafted clay pots, which sat atop an oak <b>armoire</b>. (The armoire housed an old TV ... it's time for a flat screen!) The bathroom had the same feel, with brown tiled floors and multi-colored tile walls. Inside the <b>shower </b>were four glass blocks that weren't see-through, but they did allow natural light in, making the space bright. Although the room featured Marriott's signature Revive bedding, I didn't sleep very well. It was either because there were too many pillows or the fact that I forgot to turn on the A/C and the heavy duvet was just making me too hot. From the rave reviews on TripAdvisor, my experience was not the norm on this one. My sleeplessness could also have been due to having so much work to do. Instead of watching the hours slip away on the clock/iPod docking station, I got up and switched on the ol' laptop. The rooms don't have wireless but broadband Internet is available and it's not outrageously expensive at $12.95 for 24 hours. The oversized leather desk chair was one of the most comfortable around. The best part about the rooms are the fact that they are built solid; I didn't hear any construction, outdoor traffic or other guests. Other notable room amenities include a stocked mini bar but I should mention that a small package of M&Ms was $3 – Ouch! But if you shop wisely, there's a mini kitchenette with an empty refrigerator, microwave and sink.<br />
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<b>HOPPIN' JACK'S</b><br />
I had both my meals at the Camelback Inn's Hoppin' Jack's Restaurant, which was literally across the road from my room. I decided to opt for something semi-healthy: <b>tortilla soup</b> ($5) and <b>chicken chopped salad</b> ($12). Both hit the spot. I dined outside solo, in just a short sleeve shirt, while reading travel magazines and peaking up every few minutes at the Phoenix Sun's score on the restaurant's huge flat screen TV. In the morning, it was a little chillier but I still ate outside (bring a sweater this time of year) while feasting on their delicious, $21 <b>breakfast buffet</b>. I had planned to just have small tastes of everything but ended up devouring the <b>huevos rancheros</b> and <b>French toast</b> with real maple syrup and fresh berries. The attentive, friendly waitresses were mostly from Europe – the two serving me were from Bulgaria and Germany. The explained that a lot of foreigners were working there due to Marriott's amazing internship program.<br />
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<b>NOT ENOUGH TIME</b><br />
If I'd had more than 12 hours, I would definitely have checked out the hotel's 36 holes of championship golf, the spa, pools and hot tubs. Instead, the one thing I took home with me was the feeling of being in the southwest. With so many hotels these days, it's nice to have a major chain that not only provides all the comforts of home but also has a personality. My room and my walk around the property after dinner, admiring the light blue sky filled with bright stars and the silhouette of the Camelback Mountains, was memorable. Rack rates begin at $189 a night. Camelback Inn, A JW Marriott Resort, 5402 East Lincoln Drive, Scottsdale, AZ, Tel: 480-948-1700 or call toll-free 800-24-CAMEL.</span><br />
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Phoenix, known as The Valley of the Sun for its 300 days of sunshine each year, is fragmented into many neighborhoods and suburbs. Visitors first notice the sprawling low profile of most of the valley, with two exceptional high-rise downtown neighborhoods. <br />
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<b>Downtown Phoenix </b><br />
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The downtown area has been undergoing a major facelift since the building of the US Airways Center and the Chase Field . Coffeehouses, restaurants, nightclubs and shopping in the Arizona Center continue to draw people downtown for the nightlife. Many new restaurants have opened, including A League Of Our Own. Incorporating the themes of Phoenix's early history with culture and local events, Copper Square is a full square-mile hotspot for activities and action. Downtown attractions include the park at Patriots Square , the Arizona Science Center , the Phoenix Museum of History and the Phoenix Art Museum . <br />
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<b>West Phoenix </b><br />
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The inner neighborhoods include moderately priced homes largely developed in the 1970s. Shopping in the west area can be found at Desert Sky Mall , and Cricket Pavilion , which offers an open-air entertainment amphitheater. <br />
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The growing west side continues to spread outward. Visit charming Historic Downtown Glendale and Catlin Court for first-rate antique opportunities. The newer Arrowhead Towne Center Mall offers shopping and diverse dining choices. <br />
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<b>South Phoenix </b><br />
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Largely comprised of low-cost housing and industry, the walled and gated community of Ahwatukee is a notable exception. Ahwatukee residents are mostly older adults and urban professionals. Upscale apartments coexist with middle class housing here. Be sure to take the South Mountain Park Scenic Drive while you are visiting this area. Fabulous sunsets are the pride of Arizona and best enjoyed from a desert wilderness vantage point. Nearby shopping can be found at the new Arizona Mills Mall just across the freeway. <br />
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<b>Northwest </b><br />
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Past Peoria and Glendale are the communities of Sun City, Sun City West, Youngtown and Surprise. Hikers will enjoy the White Tank Mountain Regional Park. The Sun Cities and Youngtown are largely retirement communities with a casual, leisure pace. <br />
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<b>East Side </b><br />
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Bordering Phoenix is the town of Paradise Valley, which draws middle to upper class residents. Fine shopping is available at the Paradise Valley Mall . East of Paradise Valley is Scottsdale, fondly referred to by residents as "The West's Most Western Town." Highly sought after for conventions and vacations, this area has upscale housing and topnotch restaurants such as Ruth's Chris Steak House at Lincoln Drive and Scottsdale Road. World class shopping is provided at the lovely Borgata of Scottsdale . <br />
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Located south of Scottsdale, Tempe is primarily a college town and the home of Arizona State University . Local festivals such as Fall Festival of the Arts are extremely popular down on South Mill. The University is located in its center, ringed by family and student housing. <br />
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Continuing east we find Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert. Chandler remained largely an agricultural community until a growth spurt, which began in the 1970s. Much of this area houses young families and middle-class professionals in stucco and tile developments. Local shopping is enjoyable at the Superstition Springs Center Mall at the northwest corner of Highway 60 and Power Road.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-69691149416053985482010-03-30T04:10:00.000-07:002010-03-30T04:10:00.141-07:00What to do in phoenixDescription <br />
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This beautiful western city is the capitol of Arizona and home to a rapidly growing population of 1.3 million very diverse residents. Phoenix sits with its partner city of Scottsdale to the north of the breathtaking Sonoran Desert. The hot weather here is tempered by a total lack of humidity and breezes that come to call as the evening settles in. <br />
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Phoenix, Arizona is rich with a blend of rugged desert heartiness and modern bohemian culture. Art galleries, museums, botanical gardens, and lots of things to do for kids and adults of all ages make a Phoenix vacation a great choice for the family. <br />
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The neighbor town of Scottsdale is home to numerous golf resorts, health spas, and dude ranches and the greater Phoenix area, including Mesa and Tempe, has become a haven for retirees looking for an active lifestyle in beautiful surroundings. <br />
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Fast Facts <br />
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Phoenix is now the 6th largest city in the United States and shows no signs of slowing its growth. <br />
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Hunters beware…it is illegal to hunt camels in the State of Arizona! <br />
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Phoenix's South Mountain Park covers 17,000 acres and is the largest city park in the United States. The park is perfect for barbecues, trail rides, scenic drives, and mountain biking. <br />
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The City of Phoenix is home to over 45,000 hotel rooms and was voted the top hotel destination among frequent travelers. 8 out 10 Phoenix visitors plan on returning. <br />
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Phoenix Attractions <br />
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This booming city is the perfect base for all kinds of outdoor adventures. Journey into the Sonoran Desert with an experienced local guide to experience the brilliantly colored sandstone formations and towering Saguaro Cacti. <br />
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The Phoenix art community hosts a city Art Walk every Thursday evening touring the various art spaces with new themes every week. Following are a few of the many great Phoenix attractions to check out on your Arizona vacation. <br />
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Phoenix Desert Botanical Gardens<br />
This sanctuary of United States desert flora is home to 139 endangered species and many other specimens unique to this western ecosystem. The Phoenix Botanical Gardens are home to many horticultural research studies, educational programs, and ecopreservation efforts. <br />
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The Gardens host art and music events, such as a stunning exhibit of glass sculpture that is displayed within the natural beauty of the desert gardens and torch lit concerts under the western moon. <br />
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Arizona Science Center<br />
The science museum located in downtown Phoenix is an interactive adventure for kids of all ages. Experience the Dorrance Planetarium's programs on black holes and other wonders of the universe. Kids will love the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe exhibit and the brand new Star Trek experience with full-size bridge of the Starship Enterprise. The Science Center also offers wilderness training camps in the challenging deserts and mountains of Arizona. <br />
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Phoenix Art Museum<br />
An eclectic and ever evolving gallery, the Phoenix Art Museum showcases both international and local artists, with a special interest in art of the Western United States. Visitors will enjoy glass sculpture, fashion displays, Native American artwork, Arizona craftsman demonstrations, and collections of modern and classic artwork of many genres.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-9908874868948080682010-03-29T04:06:00.000-07:002010-03-29T04:06:00.372-07:00How To Find Free Children's Activities in PhoenixThere are wonderful things to do with kids in the Phoenix rea. Sometimes, though, budget may be an issue. Here are some free activities for children that will make everyone happy.<br />
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Go fishing at Kiwanis Park in Tempe. With 125 acres and a huge recreation center, there's always plenty to do there.<br />
Take your kids to the library. All of the area libraries have story times for the younger kids, and programs and events for the older ones.<br />
There are places where you and the kids can take a behind-the-scenes tour, and some of them, like the Stuffington Bear Factory and Cerreta Candy Company are free.<br />
Got skates or a skateboard? The valley now has several skate parks. Novice skaters can watch the more experienced ones practice.<br />
I don't believe a week goes by in this town without some community having a free festival or concert. Bring juice boxes, water and snacks.<br />
Have you always wanted to climb Piestewa Peak? It's fun, pretty and healthy! Not necessarily a summer activity, though. Bring water and light snacks.<br />
Have your kids ever seen petroglyphs? Take a hike at Waterfall Trail in the West Valley.<br />
Home Depot has monthly classes for kids that allow them to build something. They get to wear an apron, learn how to use tools, get free materials, and leave with a masterpiece. Lakeshore Learning Store also offers free project / craft classes for kids.<br />
Take the kids swimming. here are community swimming pools all around the valley. Most charge a very nominal fee. If your kids don't swim yet, many of the area parks now have splash pads or splash playgrounds during the summer.<br />
Every Wednesday from 3:30 to 4 p.m., "Wildflower Kids" enjoy a complimentary cookie, milk and activity at Wildflower Bread Company with locations in Phoenix, Goodyear, Scottsdale, Tempe and Chandler.<br />
Put the bikes in the back of the SUV and drive to a beautiful park, like South Mountain, and go for a family bike ride. If it is too hot for that, just go for a scenic car ride.<br />
Are the kids old enough to sit in the car for awhile? A drive on the Apache Trail is scary and a lot of fun.<br />
The City of Phoenix, and other cities and towns in the Greater Phoenix area, often hold free summer sports clinics for kids, like golf and tennis. Check your city's recreation department and sign them up!<br />
Arrowhead Mall in Glendale, Chandler Fashion Center in Chandler and others have indoor play areas for the little ones. The kids love it! At Superstition Springs Mall in Mesa, there's a carousel that kids (and adults) can ride for a nominal charge. The Westcor Malls all have a Kids Club that meets regularly for both fun and entertainment.<br />
Projects with the kids are entertaining and (shhhh. . .) educational. Make something cool (a kite? a planter?) out of stuff around the house.<br />
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Every week I blog about the coming week's free activities. Some are fun, some are educational, some are artsy, some are even for adults, but they are all free. Check here for the most recent "Free Things To Do" list.<br />
Take your kids to different neighborhoods around town, so they can experience different sights and people.<br />
Get on mailing lists for nearby libraries, so you can get the events calendars in the mail or by email. These aren't just book discussion programs anymore--the libraries in Arizona are very creative.<br />
Visit the web sites for the various cities and towns of the area and check out their recreation departments. They all have one!<br />
Get a free meal for your kids! Many restaurants in the Valley have a Kids Eat Free program.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-35605791762868471212010-03-28T04:03:00.000-07:002010-03-28T04:03:00.757-07:00Where does joaquin phoenix live<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"></span><br />
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<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He confesses to having been frightened by the flick of his latest film, SIGNS, when he finally saw it at a screening.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Known well as an animal lover, he also revealed that the dog in SIGNS, who reacted with fright every time the aliens were in the cornfield, was trained to bark on cue and behave scared.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Took his mother to the Academy Awards. (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">May 2000- He appeared on both Late Night with David Letterman and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno promoting GLADIATOR.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He took his mother to the premiere of GLADIATOR.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He was born Joaquin Raphael, but at the age of four he decided that he wanted a more earthy name, like his elder siblings River and Rain, so while he was raking leaves with his father he decided on Leaf. In the early '90s he would take back his birth name.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">His first name is pronounced WAA-keen</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He is a strict vegan and will not wear costumes made out of animal skin.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He was born on same day, year and city as Dayanara Torres Delgado</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He resides in New York City in the same apartment building as best friend Casey Affleck and sister Summer Phoenix and <span style="color: rgb(6, 103, 223) !important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(6, 103, 223) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">director</span></span> Gus Van Sant.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Martha Plimpton, played his older sister in PARENTHOOD (1989) while dating his brother River Phoenix in real life.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Replaced Mark Ruffalo who had to pull out of SIGNS (2002) due to ill health.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He is a good painter.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Has a motorcycle.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Was a model for Prada.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Hits his head against walls when he thinks a scene isn't done right.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Joaquin used to be a transsexual lap-dancer working in Japan.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Was born with the scar on his lip.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Joaquin changed his name to Leaf when he was 4 years old, to have a more earthy name like his siblings.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">His parents changed their Surname to Phoenix, which means strength, before they had their 5 children as a sign of a new beginning.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Joaquin is that kind of person who is never getting married, and he love the way that he is.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He was with River the night he died.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">His parents are <span style="color: rgb(6, 103, 223) !important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(6, 103, 223) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">divorced</span></span></li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Likes Radiohead, Gangstarr, and John Lennon.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">His best friend is actor Casey Affleck, brother of Ben. Casey also dates Joaquin's sister, actress Summer Phoenix.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Likes women to call him Kitten.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Member and Spokesperson for PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals).</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Joaquin, his sister Summer, Casey Affleck and Director Gus Vans Sant all live in the same apartment building in New York.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Does not eat eggs and does not drink milk.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He enjoys Spanish soap operas.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Watches Spanish soap operas to improve his acting ability.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Speaks fluent Spanish.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Likes country and rock music.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Contrary to popular belief, the scar on his lip is not the result of a repaired cleft lip or palate. It is simply a birth mark. Phoenix has stated in interviews that, while pregnant with him, his mother felt a sharp pain one day, and he was born with a mark on his lip.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Did his own vocals on the WALK THE LINE (2005) soundtrack.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Favorite authors include Tennessee Williams, Rainer Maria Rilke and Hubert Selby Jr..</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">He and River Phoenix are the first brothers to be nominated for acting Academy Awards.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">In his diner scene with Sean Penn in U TURN (1997) the song Ring of Fire by Johnny Cash starts playing. Years later, Joaquin played Cash in WALK THE LINE (2005).</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Is of Russian, Spanish and Hungarian heritage.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Joaquin's mother is of Hungarian-Russian decent and his father is of Spanish-Irish decent.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Close friends with Matt Damon.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Close friends with Vince Vaughn.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Kate Winslet calls him the best actor of his generation.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Nickname: Kitten / Joaq</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Often brings his mother or any of his three sisters as his date to movie premieres or <span style="color: rgb(6, 103, 223) !important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(6, 103, 223) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">award </span><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(6, 103, 223) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">shows</span></span>.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Once refused to wear shoes during a photo shoot for Prada because they were made out of leather.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Owns two cats.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Reportedly never reads his own press or reviews.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Rides a Ducati motorcycle and a yellow '72 Le Mans.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Shares a birthday with actress Julia Roberts.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Spoke Spanish as a small child but forgot most of it as he got older.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Was friends with Heath Ledger.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Also credited as: Leaf Phoenix / Lief Phoenix</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Was paid $3,500,000 for WALK THE LINE (2005)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Was paid $850,000 for LADDER 49 (2004)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Was paid $5,000,000 for THE VILLAGE (2004)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Was paid $1,000,000 for SIGNS (2002)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Was paid $700,000 for BUFFALO SOLDIERS (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Was paid $375,000 for QUILLS (2000)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Nominated for Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role at BAFTA Awards for GLADIATOR (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role at Screen Actors Guild Awards for GLADIATOR (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Nominated for Best Villain at <span style="color: rgb(6, 103, 223) !important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-left-color: initial !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-left-width: 0px !important; border-right-color: initial !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-right-width: 0px !important; border-top-color: initial !important; border-top-style: none !important; border-top-width: 0px !important; color: rgb(6, 103, 223) !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; padding-bottom: 1px !important; padding-left: 0px !important; padding-right: 0px !important; padding-top: 0px !important; position: static; width: auto !important;">MTV</span></span> Movie Awards for GLADIATOR (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Nominated for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture at Golden Globe Awards for GLADIATOR (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Nominated for Best Line from a Movie at MTV Movie Awards for GLADIATOR (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role at Academy Awards for GLADIATOR (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">It's kind of embarrassing, but I did jump a few times." (about his latest film, SIGNS)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">You work on a film, and you see 20 takes. When it's all put together, it's all flowing, there's a continuity. And if it's done right, you get just as swept away as anyone else."</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">When I go out with the ladies, I don't force them to pronounce my name. I tell them I like to go by the nickname of Kitten."</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I had a Catholic girlfriend but she wouldn't, uh, share loving."</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">After River's death, I felt like I was in an altered state. It took me over a year to get my life back.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">As I'm reading a script, I start to see the character. I always seem to do something to my hair. A lot of stuff I do for a part, people don't even notice, but I notice, and it makes the character whole for me.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">First of all, I really think that the greatest fear for actors, is reaching the point in which they go, 'God, I'm good at this', because I think the work will really suffer. It's not a conscious effort, it's just I always hope I can do justice to the films and characters. I feel that I've been choosy in my roles as much as I can be, and I only work on films that I REALLY want to make.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I changed my name because no one in the States could pronounce 'Joaquin' and I used to get really embarrassed about it as a kid. All the other kids in my family had gorgeous names and I got 'Joaquin', you know what I mean? So I said 'This is not good. Even I can't say it'.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I don't have the slightest desire to speak about my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I don't know Shakespeare! I'm not a serious actor. Directors always make references, and I go: "Ah, I'll check it out," and I never, ever do. I'm incredibly lazy.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I don't know why I always get to play these guys who have few redeeming features. But don't knock it. Villains are much more fun.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I enjoy humour more than anything, I don't really sit around banging my head and crying all the time.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I go into movies thinking, we're performing, but with interviews, we're pretending to be completely real. I just can't get my head around it. And the things we say in this hour could permanently shape our personas. I mean, tell me that's not a little odd! And because I think that's odd, people think I'm odd. And that's strange. Know what I'm saying?“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I had a really wonderful upbringing. We were a tight family. It was wonderful to grow up with so many siblings. We were all just a year or two apart, and we were always so supportive of each other. I learned everything from my older brother and sister and taught it to my younger sisters.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I live a really boring life. I'm much more clichéd, pathetic and pretentious than you would probably give me credit for. I don't want to do much of anything when I'm not working. It's important that any woman I know shouldn't need to be stimulated outside the house, because I can't provide that.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I never think that I'm good at anything I do. I can always do it better, I know my weakness. I've never been perfect.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I'm going to sound a little weird here, but I like to spend a lot of time on my own in the woods. I don't exactly sneak off in the middle of the night, but I like to be in a place where no one can reach me by phone or e-mail.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">I'm not the indie kid, and I'm also not the John Grisham novel hero, but I am all of those things. I do whatever excites me at the time. I'll be in some huge $80 million buddy cop movie, I don't care, and I'll also do some wild independent movie. I refuse to have an agenda.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">If you can come in, say your lines brilliantly, and be thinking 'What's for lunch?' the whole time you're doing it and it works for the audience, who cares?“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">It's a bad idea for actors to grow accustomed to seeing themselves on camera, because inevitably you start doing things and become too self-conscious. The only way to prevent it is by not being aware of yourself in that way or at least trying not to be.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">It's been a year since last time I tried to give up smoking. I went to a hypnotist; we sat down and started talking. A couple of hours later, I woke up; the hypnotist wasn't in the room, but his wife was. I was like 'Oh my goodness, I fell asleep and didn't get to talk to the doctor.' And she said 'Don't worry, you talked...' I freaked out, left their place, immediately bought a pack of cigarettes and smoked, terrified of what I'd said.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Making movies is a constant manipulation. You manipulate the environment. You make it rain when you want it to. You manipulate actors. And as an actor, you try and manipulate your feelings to match what you think you'd be going through in a situation where your character is going through something.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">My significant other right now is myself, which is what happens when you suffer from multiple personality disorder and self-obsession.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">That kind of fame; I couldn't have it in my life. I love that we can sit on the lawn in Central Park and I'm just one of the millions. I don't want to lose that. I'm trying to figure out the perfect strategy. And it's tough. I just want to be right in the middle.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.“</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">On falling into acting: "I suck at painting and writing; I tried both. For me, it's acting because I grew up with it. When we moved to California, we all did commercials and TV shows. Riv was the first to get a TV show and me and my sister Liberty guest-starred on another show. It was kind of accidental.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">On his childhood and his live on the land with his family: "I remember us being poor, but I never felt embarrassed, or like I was missing anything. I don't remember the hardship of trying to make it, just how my parents always managed to get through.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">On relationship with Liv Tyler: "I was in awe. Every once in a while you find an actor that, with one word, can sum up eight different emotions. She absolutely nailed that.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">On relationship with Liv Tyler: "I'm a great believer in people coming into your life, and you into theirs, for a reason. And i know that when Liv and I met, it was for a reason - I really needed her and she really needed me. And at a certain point, I think we stopped evolving with each other, stopped progressing, and made a very mature decision to move on, even though there was still a great love there. There's no one gossipy thing that I can share. I'm thankful that we had the time we had.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">On relationship with Liv Tyler: "What can I say ? We hit it off immediately. She's a darling. I've said it over and over again. She's just very real, right there, never like a movie star. She's so genuine, and she doesn't take herself too seriously. It shows in the work she does that her honesty stands out most.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">On living without older brother River: “River and I would talk about being old, being in our 50s together, how it'd probably take us that long to get to work together. There was something gorgeous about us being old together. River will be missed -period. I mean now, more than ever I wish I could talk to him.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">On maintaining a lower profile then some of his other Hollywood peers: “The less someone knows about me, the better, because my intention is to play a variety of characters.</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">On acting being his biggest challenge: “Acting. I'm one of those actors who likes to stay in character between takes. I drive other actors crazy but, to me, the most important thing when I'm making a film is that the character takes precedence. I become obsessed with whoever I'm playing. I want to explore the character as completely as I can. The moment an actor becomes satisfied with themselves, their work suffers. I think that we should always challenge ourselves in work. “</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Hollywood Film Awards: Actor Of The Year, WALK THE LINE (2005)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">San Diego Film Critics Society Awards: Special Award - Body of Work, QUILLS (2000) Nominated for Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture at Screen Actors Guild Awards for GLADIATOR (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actor, QUILLS (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Villain (Internet Only), GLADIATOR (2001)</li>
<li class="blackfont" style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-decoration: none;">National Board of Review: Best Supporting Actor, GLADIATOR (2000)</li>
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<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There’s never been a better time to be a kid, not to mention a parent, in the <a href="http://www.azcentral.com/travel/arizona/phoenix/" style="color: #1e5e9c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Phoenix</a>. Fun things do for the whole family are plentiful - even when the Valley’s 100-degree-plus temperatures return in the summer months. 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This nationally known theater company recently celebrated a quarter-century of staging plays --- innovatively produced pieces done with puppets or live actors --- based on children’s books, fables and independent works. Childsplay performs at the Tempe Performing Arts Center and the Herberger in Phoenix; its annual performance of “The Velveteen Rabbit” is staged at the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Great Arizona Puppet Theater</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />302 W. Latham St., Phoenix<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 262-2050<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Housed in its own theater in a historic downtown building, Great Arizona Puppet Theater has been entertaining families since 1983. The GAPT puts on shows five days a week, year-round, most of which are based on fairy tales or folk tales.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Valley Youth Theatre</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />525 N. 1st St., Phoenix<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 253-8188<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />VYT is entering its 17th season of staging big Broadway shows such as “Annie,” “Grease” and “Beauty and the Beast.” The professional-quality company, which features child actors and is for audiences of all ages, performs at its own two theaters as well as at the Herberger.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Arizona Museum for Youth</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />35 N. Robson St., Mesa<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 644-2467<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />An eclectic, ever-changing array of completely hands-on exhibits are the hallmark of the AMFY. Best for kids up to age 12, and suitable even for toddlers. Closed Mondays.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">5.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mesa Southwest Museum</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />53 N. MacDonald, Mesa<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 644-2230<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Areas of interest from Arizona pre-history to geology to space are explored here, but the real draw is the animatronic dinosaurs, plus real fossils and skeletons. Equally fascinating for all ages, even the grown-ups.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">8 dynamite diversions</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hall of Flame Fire Museum</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />6101 E. Van Buren, Phoenix<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 275-3473<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />In Phoenix since 1974, the Hall of Flame shows off 100 firefighting rigs and features a “Hall of Heroes,” which honors firefighters who have died in the line or duty or been cited for heroism.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cerreta Candy Company</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />5345 W. Glendale Ave., Glendale<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(623) 930-1000<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Sugar-rush central! Free tours are offered twice daily, at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. on weekdays and all day on Saturday. Call to find out about Chocolate Camp. Has anything ever sounded better than that?</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Phoenix Family Museum</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 253-0501<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Set to open in a permanent location in 2007, the Phoenix Family Museum currently operates as a museum on wheels, bringing its exhibits to schools, parks, arts festivals and events. Check out the website for a calendar of events.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Phoenix Police Museum</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />101 S. Central Ave. (Southwest Corner of Central Avenue and Jefferson Street)<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 534-7278<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Open Monday, Wednesday and Friday, the Phoenix Police Museum is fascinating for parents and children. On display are police motorcycles, a vintage police car and memorabilia about famous Valley crimes. Kids can try on police uniforms while their parents read about “Trunk Murderess” Winnie Ruth Judd.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">5.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Pioneer Village</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />3901 W. Pioneer Rd., Phoenix<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Exit 225 off I-17, 12 miles north of Bell Road<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(623) 465-1052<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Families can see how turn-of-the-century (that’s the 20th century, not the current one) Phoenicians and rural Arizonans lived at this living-history museum. Set up like a small town, visitors can tour a jail, an old Phoenix home, a one-room schoolhouse and other buildings. Restaurant on-site.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">6.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Arizona Science Center</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />600 E. Washington<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 716-2000<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Regardless of the current exhibit, there’s never a shortage of things to keep you busy, whether you’re children are 2 or 16. The museum’s motto is “Hands-on, eye-opening fun,” which sums up pretty well the array of educational and entertaining activities here, including a state-of-the-art planetarium and giant-screen theater.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">7.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fishing</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 942-3000<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Arizona’s Urban Fishing program was launched more than two decades ago by the state’s Game and Fish Department. More than a dozen lakes --- including Tempe Town Lake and Kiwanis Lake in Tempe, Red Mountain Lake in Mesa and Chapparal Lake in Scottsdale --- participate in the program, which permits fishermen to take home up to four fish each day. Those over 14 need a license, which runs about $15.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">8.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Farmers Markets</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Shop for fresh produce, jams and breads and handi-crafts at these open-air markets. Most are run from November through April; contact the Arizona Community Farmers Market Association (623-848-1234) for specific times.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Carefree/Cave Creek:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Carefree Farmers Market, downtown amphitheater<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Cave Creek Farmers Market, 6900 E. Cave Creek Rd. in the Fandango Restaurant parking lot.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chandler:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Casa Paloma Farmers Market, 56th Street and Ray Road<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Chandler Farmers Market, A.J. Chandler Park<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Downtown Chandler Farmers Market, Commonwealth and San Marcos Streets</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fountain Hills:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Plaza Fountainside Market, 12645 N. Saguaro Blvd.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Gilbert:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Gilbert Heritage District Farmers Market, 10 S. Gilbert Rd., in the museum parking lot.<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Gilbert Heritage Court Market, 207 N. Gilbert Rd.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Glendale:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• The Market at Murphy Park, 7146 N. 57th Ave.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Goodyear:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Estrella Mountain Ranch Lakeside Farmers Market, 10366 E. Estrella Pkwy.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Litchfield Park:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Litchfield Park Organics Saturday Market, 107 Honeysuckle St., across from the Wigwam Resort</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Mesa:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Market on Main, Main Street between Center and Robson<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Mesa Community Farmers Market, 263 N. Center St.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Phoenix:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Biltmore Market in the Park, 24th Street and Camelback Road, at the Biltmore Fashion Park.<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• The Farm at South Mountain Farmers Market, 6106 S. 32nd St.<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Harmon Park Farmers Market, 4th Avenue and Yavapai Street<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Heritage Square Farmers Market, 7th Street and Monroe<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Patriots Square Marketplace, between Washington and Central Avenues.<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Phoenix Camelback Market, 3930 E. Camelback Rd., at Vincent’s on Camelback<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Roosevelt Farmers Market, 100 W. Portland St. in Portland Park<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Town & Country Farmers Market, 2021 E. Camelback Rd.<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Washington Park Farmers Market, 2240 W. Citrus Way</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Scottsdale:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Borgata Farmers Market, Scottsdale Road and McDonald Drive<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• DC Ranch Farmers Market, Thompson Peak Parkway and Pima Road<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• McDowell Mountain Ranch Market, 10406 E. McDowell Mountain Rd.<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• The Promenade Saturday market, Scottsdale Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Tempe:</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />• Tempe Farmers Market, 6th Street and Mill Avenue</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">7 prime spots for parks ‘n’ picnics</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1. Railroad Parks</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Scottsdale’s McCormick-Stillman Railroad Park (7301 E. Indian Bend Rd.; 480-312-2312), Freestone Park in Gilbert (1021 E. Juniper Rd. between Guadalupe and Elliot Roads; 480-632-2702) and Desert Breeze Railroad Park (660 Desert Breeze Blvd., near McClintock Road and Chandler Boulevard; 480-940-1685) have wet/dry playgrounds, amusement rides and trains. Adobe Mountain Railroad Museum and Desert Railroad Park in Glendale (23280 N. 43rd Ave.; 623-386-5737) offers free (donations accepted) train rides along its six miles of track.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2. Gilbert Riparian Preserve</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />2757 E. Guadalupe Rd., just east of Greenfield Road<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 503-6744<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Fishing and hiking are the draw at this 100-acre park, which, thanks to the abundance of foliage and animal life, feels secluded from the hustle and bustle going on around it. As fast as Gilbert is growing, this area remains a peaceful retreat.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3. The Farm at South Mountain</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />6106 S. 32nd St., Phoenix<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 276-6360<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Pick up a gourmet sandwich at the on-site restaurant and grab a table in this shaded pecan grove. The kids will be so enthralled by this little slice of nature that they won’t notice there’s no playground equipment. Closed for summer.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4. Margaret Hance Deck Park</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />67 W. Culver St., Phoenix<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 534-2406<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />This 30-acre park, situated over the tunnel between uptown and downtown Phoenix, is the most picturesque picnic spot in the middle of the city.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">5. Chaparral Park</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />5401 N. Hayden Rd., Scottsdale<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 312-2353<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />A dog park, sports courts and fishing/duck-feeding lake help make up this sprawling, 74-acre park.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">6. Red Mountain Park</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />7745 E. Brown Rd., Mesa<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 644-2351<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Big-kid and little-kid playgrounds, a pond and plenty of walking paths are the highlights of this far-east-side park.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">7. Saguaro Ranch Park</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />9802 N. 59th Ave., Glendale<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(623) 930-2820<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Peacocks stroll through this 16-acre park, which features fruit orchards, a playground, picnic tables and trails.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3 ways to keep your cool (in summer)</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">We can’t all spend three months of the year in Flagstaff or San Diego, but we can make the best of our brutal summers with these beat-the-heat destinations:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Makutu’s Island</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />6919 W. Ray Rd., Chandler<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 893-0106<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Housed in the building that used to be Clubhouse Disney, Makutu’s Island has taken the indoor playground concept and cut down on the sensory overload for parents as well as kids. There is a small room with arcade games, but beyond that, the bells and whistles are blessedly few. Kids can climb through tunnels, rappel, slide and run around to their hearts content while parents sit on a bench with a book.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2. Water Parks</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Three of the Valley’s biggest parks are owned by Sunsplash and offer a variety of other amenities, such as arcades and mini-golf:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Big Surf</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />1500 N. McClintock Dr., Tempe<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 947-7873</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Golfland-Sunsplash</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />155 W. Hampton, Mesa<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 834-8319</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Waterworld Safari</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />4243 W. Pinnacle Peak Rd., Glendale<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(623) 581-8446</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Kiwanas Wave Pool</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />6111 S. All-America Way, Tempe<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 350-5201<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Kids can grab a floatie and ride the waves. It’s usually crowded and noisy, but no more so than any other public pool.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">IMAX Theater</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />5000 Arizona Mills Circle, Tempe<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 897-4629<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Big screen, high A/C and cinematic offerings you can’t get in a regular theater make IMAX the place to be in the summer months or anytime.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3 animal attractions</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">1.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Phoenix Zoo</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />455 N. Galvin Parkway, Phoenix<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(602) 273-1341<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Halloween has “Boo at the Zoo,” the winter holidays have “ZooLights” and each month other events are promoted. Even without special occasions, though, the Phoenix Zoo has plenty to see and do, from Zoo Encounters (educational talks by zookeepers) to exploration of its four trails (Arizona, Africa, Tropics and Discovery). Kids especially enjoy the ever-improving Harmony Farm area, complete with petting zoo farm buildings and play areas.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">2.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Wildlife World Zoo</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />16501 W. Northern Ave., Litchfield Park<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(623) 935-9453<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />An accredited zoo with the largest collection of exotic animals --- including white tigers, giraffes, rhinos, kangaroos and 20 species of primates --- the Wildlife World Zoo is an intimate, 50-acre facility that packs a lot into its 50 acres. Plenty of interactive exhibits are offered, including a petting zoo and giraffe-feeding station.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">3.</strong> <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Superstition Reptile Exhibit</strong><br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Goldfield Ghost Town<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />4650 N. Mammoth Mine Rd., north of Apache Junction<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />(480) 983-0333<br style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />This little-known feature of Goldfield Ghost Town is a must for reptile-lovers and is an excellent addition to any visit to Goldfield.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-53261788274547915532010-03-26T03:52:00.000-07:002010-03-26T03:52:00.166-07:00How far is the grand canyon from phoenix<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">Thanks to the mythological tale of the persevering bird, the name Phoenix conjures up images of rising from the ashes – and it is an appropriate moniker for a city that made the transition from deserted Native American ruins to upscale playground for spa-goers, duffers, arts lovers and other city-dwellers. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The Hohokam farmed the land as early as 300 BC and built a sophisticated network of canals more than 135 miles long. But despite their ingenuity, the society soon disappeared – experts believed the area suffered a fatal drought. The name Hohokam is derived from what other tribes called the area – "Ho Ho Kam," the people who have gone. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The modern city of Phoenix was formed in 1865 as an outpost for the U.S. Army. Originally dubbed Punkinsville for its bounteous pumpkin crop, the city was later renamed Phoenix in hopes that it would undergo a dramatic resurrection. The name proved to be prophetic, as the area saw dramatic growth during the second half of the 20th century.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Today, Phoenix is just one part of the "Valley of the Sun," which includes closely linked cities such as Scottsdale, Mesa and Tempe. Each section has its own unique look and feel, and with good reason – these are individual towns that meshed into one thanks to rapid population growth and the consequential urban sprawl. Each has maintained its unique character, and the Valley as a whole offers an abundance of history, culture, leisure and natural beauty. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Downtown Phoenix is where commerce and government are found, but it also boasts a litany of entertainment options, including Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, and US Airways Center, where the Phoenix Suns play. Meanwhile, the NFL Arizona Cardinals play "under the roof" at the University of Phoenix Stadium. Attractions such as the Heard Museum, Arizona Science Center and Heritage Square dot the area, providing plenty of things to do on Phoenix vacations.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Scottsdale, once considered a cowpoke town, is now known for its wealth of swanky resorts, with a burgeoning dining, shopping and arts scene to go with it. Tourists traveling in the Phoenix area flock here for a taste of the good life, and the three dozen area resorts comply with every pampering treatment you can imagine, from salt glows to seaweed wraps to full-body massages. Tempe has more of a college town vibe, with bars, sidewalk cafes and other less-expensive hangouts, while Mesa is known as a high-tech mecca, with lots of chain restaurants and shops. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />While those who prefer indoor pursuits will have their fill of things to do in Phoenix, outdoorsy types will also be more than accommodated. The Desert Botanical Garden is a must-see, with more than 150 acres filled with beautiful examples of native flora and fauna. Hiking, camping and cycling are popular among locals and visitors alike, while the adventurous may want to try hot-air ballooning. And of course, there are tennis and golf, the mainstays of the snowbirds that make their way west each fall. Phoenix travelers can enjoy more than 200 golf courses, most offering stunning views. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Whether you prefer mud wraps or mountain bikes, cowboy boots or contemporary art – or all of the above – you'll find it all under the blazing Phoenix sun. And after your day of activity, don't forget to slow down and soak up the enchanting desert sunset. While Phoenix has risen gloriously from the ashes, this stunning view is a reminder that some things haven't changed since the Hohokam walked these lands more than 2,000 years ago.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-61464703022194133842010-03-25T03:46:00.000-07:002010-03-25T03:46:00.631-07:00Does joaquin phoenix have a girlfriend<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Being bored in the Valley is impossible. The Phoenix metropolitan area offers a bounty of activities, events and attractions for every interest.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Museums</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Arizona boasts more than 200 museums, art centers, archaeological parks and botanical gardens. Notable establishments include: The Heard Museum (Phoenix), world-renowned for its Native American art and culture exhibits. The Phoenix Art Museum features a permanent collection of 13,000 works ranging from contemporary art to Western classics. The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (Tucson) is both a botanical park and a zoo.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Native American attractions</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Native American culture is extensive and diverse in Arizona. The Native American Tourism Center in Scottsdale is a great place to learn more about this rich culture. The Center is located at 4130 N. Goldwater Boulevard, Suite 114, Scottsdale, AZ 85251. Phone: 480-945-0771. Fax: 480-945-0264. In Phoenix, the Heard Museum is a world-renowned museum devoted to Native American art and culture.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Old West Attractions</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Arizona's Old West Country is filled with cultural attractions that portray the region's heritage and its time under the governments of Spain and Mexico. From the early days of the Kino missions to rowdy frontier days at the OK Corral, the state's Old West regions have many stories to tell. Old Tucson Studios, located just outside Tucson, has been the setting for some of Hollywood's finest Western films. The movie Tombstone was filmed here, as were classics like John Wayne's Rio Bravo. Tucson is an easy day trip from Phoenix.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Dude ranches are another great way to experience the Old West in Arizona. Most offer horseback rides through scenic desert backlands, cookouts and even cattle drives. For more information contact the Arizona Dude Ranch Association, P. O. Box 603, Cortaro, AZ 85652.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Cacti Adventures</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Arizona is well-known for its deserts and the cacti that call them home. There are a number of places you should visit to get up close and personal with these famous desert plants.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Botanical Garden - Located next to the Phoenix Zoo, the garden displays more than 20,000 plants from all over the world.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If you are really into it and have the time, a day trip down Tucson way is worth the effort to vist the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Saguaro National Park. Both are excellent places for learning about Sonoran Desert plant and animal life. By the way, Saguaro National Park features one of the largest saguaro stands in the world.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Festivals & Events</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Here's a snapshot of annual festivals and events in or near Phoenix:</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">February, March</strong><br />
Arizona Rodeo (Phoenix), Barrett-Jackson Auction (Scottsdale - largest antique/classic car auction in the world), Phoenix Open (Scottsdale), Annual Renaissance Festival (Apache Junction), Annual O'odham Tash (Casa grande - largest all Indian rodeo, arts & crafts).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">April, May, June</strong><br />
Annual County Fair (Phoenix), The Tradition (Scottsdale - Senior PGA), George Phippen Western Art Show (Prescott).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">July, August, September</strong><br />
Fourth of July celebrations statewide, Annual Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering (Prescott), Jazz on the Rocks Benefit Festival (Sedona).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">October, November, December</strong><br />
Original Coors Rodeo Showdown (Phoenix), Cowboy Artists of America Sale & Exhibition (Phoenix), Glendale Glitters Spectacular (Glendale), Annual Cowboy Poets Christmas Gathering (Wickenburg).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Art scene</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Art aficionados should know that Arizona offers a large array of galleries, art museums and artist communities. Scottsdale is a nationally known center for Western and Native American art. The city offers block after block of galleries stocked with fine art ranging from large paintings to bronze sculptures. Nearby Sedona, Arizona's original artists' community is second only to Scottsdale in number of art establishments.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Golf</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">If golf is your life, then life is good in Phoenix. The sheer number of courses and variety of design found here make it one of the best golf destinations in the world. At last count, you have a choice of more than 275 courses statewide that range from traditional to desert target settings. The vast majority are accessible to the public.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hiking & Backpacking</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Phoenix is a great place to get outside and experience nature through hiking, especially during spring and autumn. Numerous hiking trails are easily accessible from most parts of the Valley. Most of the area hikes are rated from easy to moderate. But enthusiasts will be delighted to learn that the Valley boasts several "mini-mountains" guaranteed to challenge even iron-lunged hikers.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">More Resources:</strong><br />
• <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Hiking & Camping Database.</strong> Over 300 hiking trails searchable by location, trail name or difficulty. You can also search for campgrounds by location or camp name; and make reservations online.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">• <strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Wide World of Maps.</strong> 2626 W. Indian School Road, Phoenix, AZ 85017. Phone: 602-279-2323. A great source for USGS Quad maps.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Biking</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The possibilities for road or mountain biking in Arizona are virtually endless. In Phoenix, one of your best bets is South Mountain Park, the nation's largest city park. At 16,500 acres, the park is 11 miles across. Last year, more than 2 million visitors trekked through the mountain preserve - hiking, biking, and leisurely motoring along the scenic roads or horseback riding along the lower trails.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">More Resources:</strong><br />
• Phoenix Metro Bicycle Club</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Scenic Drives</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You could easily spend half a lifetime exploring Arizona's great outdoors by highway or back country road. Popular drives near Phoenix include the Apache Trail (near Phoenix). Visit our scenic drive pages and plan your trip.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Back Road Travel.</strong> Whether you are a skilled 4-wheeled vehicle driver or you have just rented a car (and have promised to stay on the pavement!), there are many places on public lands where you can get off the beaten path and enjoy Arizona's diverse scenery, heritage, and challenges. Back country byways and off-highway vehicle opportunities abound throughout the state. For more information about motorized recreation, visit theBureau of Land Management web site or call 602-417-9200.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="h3hed" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Sports scene</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Metro Phoenix is host the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl (college football festival), Arizona Cardinals (NFL), Arizona Diamondbacks (MLB), Phoenix Suns (NBA), Phoenix Coyotes (NHL), Arizona Rattlers (arena football), Phoenix Mercury (WNBA) and the Arizona Thunder (indoor soccer).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Three major professional golf tournaments have regular stops in Greater Phoenix: The Phoenix Open (PGA), the Standard Register Turquoise Classic (LPGA) and The Tradition (Senior PGA).</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Greater Phoenix also plays host to seven major league baseball teams each spring as part of the Cactus League. The San Francisco Giants, Seattle Mariners, Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Milwaukee Brewers and Anaheim Angels conduct their annual training programs in the metro area, while the Arizona Diamondbacks, Colorado Rockies and the Chicago White Sox train in Tucson.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Chase Field is home to the Arizona Diamondbacks, winners of the 2001 World Series. In addition to a retractable roof, it boasts a built-in swimming pool along the outfield fence that fans can rent to watch the games while relaxing in the water.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font: normal normal normal 0.9em/1.3em Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 13px; margin-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In between Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury basketball games, America West Arena's wooden floor is taken up, revealing an ice hockey rink -- the slippery home of the Phoenix Coyotes. Football fans have two teams in the Valley to follow. The Arizona Cardinals go head to head with the NFL's best at Sun Devil Stadium, which is also the home to the Arizona State University Sun Devils and the annual Fiesta Bowl.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-38701820141837739562010-03-24T03:41:00.000-07:002010-03-24T03:45:51.032-07:00Things to do in phoenixIf you had only one day in Phoenix, what would you do or see? Believe it or not, I get asked this question fairly often. Interesting to ponder, but impossible to answer. There are just too many factors. Will there be children along? Do you like to walk or drive? Is it summer or winter? Do you like museums or shopping? Metro Phoenix has so much to offer. There are so many options--how do I recommend just one or two attractions or activities?<br />
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I have picked out 15 places/activities that I think are unique or not to be missed when visiting the Phoenix area. You'd never get these done in even a week, but some attractions will appeal to you more than others. Visiting when it's hot outside? The places or activities I've marked with a double asterisk (**) are indoor, cool, and comfortable. The others may not be appropriate in summer heat, or only if you are able to visit very early in the morning.<br />
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One more thing--these Phoenix area attractions and places of interest are not listed in any particular order. It was tough enough to come up with only 15 -- please don't make me rank them!<br />
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15 Places In and Around Phoenix That You've Got to See<br />
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<b>Heard Museum** </b><br />
Every major city, and most minor ones, have museums. The Heard Museum is unique, however, not only in the exhibits that are displayed, but the style and grace with which it displays them. I never tire of visiting the Heard Museum, with its more than 32,000 pieces of cultural and fine art. There are permanent exhibits, like the famous Barry Goldwater collection of Kachina Dolls, as well as special exhibit year-round. Some of the special annual events include the World Championship Hoop Dance Contest which is held each February, and the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market each March. There's a METRO light rail station nearby.<br />
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<b>Take a Photo Tour of the Heard Museum</b><br />
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Chase Field (formerly Bank One Ballpark)** <br />
Chase Field was the first baseball facility in the world to combine a retractable roof, air conditioning, and a natural turf field. Chase Field's retractable roof can be closed in less than 5 minutes, in case we get one of those rare days of inclement weather. If you are a baseball fan, a visit to this state-of-art facility will be a special treat. There are also trade show, religious events and concerts held at Chase Field. If you aren't that interested in going to a game, or when isn't scheduled when you'll be in town, you can still see it. Just go to lunch or dinner at Friday's Front Row Sports Grill. It is located in the left-field corner of the Ballpark. Friday's Front Row is open 363 days a year. If the Arizona Diamondbacks are playing that day, you have to call them to buy tickets to eat there. Fifty percent of the ticket price is credited to your food and beverage bill. Chase Field is located in downtown Phoenix. There's a METRO light rail station nearby.<br />
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<b>Guided Tours of Chase Field</b><br />
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Desert Botanical Garden<br />
The Desert Botanical Garden has one of the world’s finest collections of desert plants. It is one of only 44 botanical gardens accredited by the American Association of Museums. At the Desert Botanical Garden you will find 50 acres of beautiful outdoor exhibits. Home to 139 rare, threatened and endangered plant species from around the world, there is no finer place to enjoy desert beauty than the Desert Botanical Garden. The Garden is located in Papago Park in Central Phoenix.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-43420699275684072012010-03-17T06:11:00.000-07:002010-03-17T06:11:10.109-07:00Phoenix Arizona DUI Penalties<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
<h2 align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A List of the DUI punishments that apply to Phoenix area drunk driving cases.</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="style3" style="color: #bb0000; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">UPDATE:</strong></span> New Arizon DUI Penatlies Effective 9.26.08</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In Phoenix, DUI penalties depend on the level of the charge, and on your criminal record. A previous DUI conviction counts as a prior if <span class="highlight" style="background-color: #ffff99; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">the arrest date</span> is within 7 years (84 months) of the current arrest date.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">NOTE</strong>: The guidelines below assume a completely clean felony record. A felony record may <em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">significantly</em> enhance a felony DUI sentence.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">First Offense Impaired to the Slightest Degree or BAC above .080</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jail</strong>: 10 to 180 days in jail. Minimum of 10 consecutive days in jail. The court <span class="highlight" style="background-color: #ffff99; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">may</span>suspend 9 of the 10 days if you agree to get an alcohol and/or drug evaluation, and submit to treatment.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fines & Costs</strong>: Aproximatey $1,800.00, plus jail costs. The more jail time that is imposed, the greater the cost.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">License</strong>: The MVD will suspend your drivers' license for 90 days. You may be elibible for a work/school permit after the first 30 days of the suspension.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Counseling</strong>: If convicted you must get a substance abuse evaluation and comply with any recommendation or be subject to additional jail time.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Probation</strong>: You may be placed on probation for up to five years.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Community Service</strong>: The court may order you to perform community service in addition to any other penalty imposed.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">MADD Victims' Impact Panel</strong>: The court may order you to attend one or more sessions of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Victims Impact Panel. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignition Interlock Device</strong>: Required for 12 months.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Second Offense Impaired to the Slightest Degree or BAC above .080</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jail</strong>: 90 to 180 days in jail. Minimum of 90 consecutive days in jail. The court <span class="highlight" style="background-color: #ffff99; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">may</span>suspend 60 of the 90 days in jail if you successfully complete all recommended treatment and counseling.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fines & Costs</strong>: Aproximately $3,500.00 in fines and costs, plus jail costs. The more jail time imposed the greater the additional costs. NOTE: Jail costs can amount to thousands of dollars in addition to the fines and costs.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">License</strong>: Your drivers' license will be revoked for one year. Reinstatement of license is not automatic. You are not eligible for a work permit during the period of revocation.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Counseling</strong>: If convicted you must get a substance abuse evaluation and comply with any recommendation or be subject to additional jail time.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Probation</strong>: You may be placed on probation for up to five years.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Community Service</strong>: The court must impose a minimum of 30 hours of community service in addition to any other fine imposed.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">MADD Victims' Impact Panel</strong>: The court may order you to attend one or more sessions of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Victims Impact Panel. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignition Interlock Device</strong>: Required for 12 months after license reinstatement.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">First Offense Extreme DUI (BAC .150 - .199)</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jail</strong>: 30 to 180 days in jail. A judge <span class="highlight" style="background-color: #ffff99; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">may not</span> suspend any portion of the minimum 30 day sentence.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fines & Costs</strong>: Aproximately $3,000.00 in fines and costs, plus jail costs. The more jail time imposed the greater the additional costs. NOTE: Jail costs can amount to thousands of dollars in addition to the fines and costs.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">License</strong>: The MVD will suspend your drivers' license for 90 days. You may be elibible for a work/school permit after the first 30 days of the suspension.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Counseling</strong>: If convicted you must get a substance abuse evaluation and comply with any recommendation or be subject to additional jail time.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Probation</strong>: You may be placed on probation for up to five years.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Community Service</strong>: The court may impose community service.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">MADD Victims' Impact Panel</strong>: The court may order you to attend one or more sessions of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Victims Impact Panel. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignition Interlock Device</strong>: Required for 12 months after license reinstatement.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Second Offense Extreme DUI (BAC .150 - .199)</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jail</strong>: 120 to 180 days in jail. Minimum of 120 consecutive days in jail. The Court <span class="highlight" style="background-color: #ffff99; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">may not</span> suspend any of the 120 days, making the term mandatory.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fines & Costs</strong>: Minimum of aproximately $3.750.00 in fines and costs, plus jail costs. The more jail time imposed the greater the additional costs. NOTE: Jail costs can amount to thousands of dollars in addition to the fines and costs.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">License</strong>: Your drivers' license will be revoked for one year. Reinstatement of license is not automatic. You are not eligible for a work permit during the period of revocation.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Counseling</strong>: If convicted you must get a substance abuse evaluation and comply with any recommendation or be subject to additional jail time.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Probation</strong>: You may be placed on probation for up to five years.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Community Service</strong>: The court must impose a minimum of 30 hours of community service in addition to all other penalties imposed.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">MADD Victims' Impact Panel</strong>: The court may order you to attend one or more sessions of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Victims Impact Panel. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignition Interlock Device</strong>: Required for 12 months after license reinstatement.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">First Offense "Super Extreme" DUI (BAC .200 or higher)</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jail</strong>: 45 to 180 days in jail. <span class="highlight" style="background-color: #ffff99; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The court is not allowed to suspend ANY of the minimum 45 consecutive days in jail.</span><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fines & Costs</strong>: Aproximately $3,250.00 in fines and costs, plus jail costs. The more jail time imposed the greater the additional costs. NOTE: Jail costs can amount to thousands of dollars in addition to the fines and costs.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">License</strong>: The MVD will suspend your drivers' license for 90 days. You may be elibible for a work/school permit after the first 30 days of the suspension.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Counseling</strong>: If convicted you must get a substance abuse evaluation and comply with any recommendation.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Probation</strong>: You may be placed on probation for up to five years.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Community Service</strong>: The court may impose community service.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">MADD Victims' Impact Panel</strong>: The court may order you to attend one or more sessions of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Victims Impact Panel. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignition Interlock Device</strong>: Required for 18 months after license reinstatement.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Second Offense "Super Extreme "Extreme DUI (BAC .200 or higher)</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jail</strong>: 180 days is jail (no sentence range). <span class="highlight" style="background-color: #ffff99; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">That means that if convicted of this offense, the Judge has no choice but to sentence you to 180 days in jail.</span> Of the 180 day sentence, 90 days must be served consecutively, leaving another 90 days to be served after that.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fines & Costs</strong>: Minimum of aproximately $4,500.00 in fines and costs, plus jail costs (which could be more than $12,000.00).<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">License</strong>: Your drivers' license will be revoked for one year. Reinstatement of license is not automatic. You are not eligible for a work permit during the period of revocation.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Counseling</strong>: If convicted you must get a substance abuse evaluation and comply with any recommendation or be subject to additional jail time.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Probation</strong>: You may be placed on probation for up to five years.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Community Service</strong>: The court must impose a minimum of 30 hours of community service in addition to all other penalties imposed.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">MADD Victims' Impact Panel</strong>: The court may order you to attend one or more sessions of the Mothers Against Drunk Driving Victims Impact Panel. <br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignition Interlock Device</strong>: Required for 24 months after license reinstatement.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Class 4 Felony Aggravated DUI (3rd DUI w/i 7 Years or DUI w/ License Suspended or Restricted)</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jail</strong>: <span class="highlight" style="background-color: #ffff99; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">4 months in <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">prison</strong></span> at a minimum before you are eligible for probation, pardon, commutation or suspension of the sentence, or release on any other basis. If you were driving a vehicle you owned at the time of the DUI arrest that led to your conviction, the Court may take your vehicle as well.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fines & Costs</strong>: Up to $150,000.00 in fines, plus a surcharge, plus an additional $250.00 assessment to the Arizona DUI abatement fund. (Plus an additional $1,500.00 assessment for arrests after March 13, 2004).<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">License</strong>: Your drivers' license will be revoked for three year<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Counseling</strong>: Your drivers' license will be revoked for three year<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Probation</strong>: You may be placed on probation for up to five years.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignition Interlock Device</strong>: Yes<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /></div><h2 style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Class 6 Felony Aggravated DUI (w/ a child under 15 years old in vehicle)</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Jail</strong>: A person convicted under this section will have to serve at least the minimum sentences for the misdemeanor DUIs described above if the offense would have been a misdemeanor but for the presence of the minor child. If you were driving a vehicle you owned at the time of the DUI arrest that led to your conviction, the Court may take your vehicle as well.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Fines & Costs</strong>: Up to $150,000.00 in fines, plus a surcharge, plus an additional $250.00 assessment to the Arizona DUI abatement fund. (Plus an additional $1,500.00 assessment for arrests after March 13, 2004).<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">License</strong>: Your drivers' license will be revoked for three years<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Counseling</strong>: You may be placed on probation for up to five years.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Probation</strong>: You may be placed on probation for up to five years.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Ignition Interlock Device</strong>: Yes</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-73175322272949868162010-03-17T06:09:00.001-07:002010-03-17T06:09:48.895-07:00Phoenix Arizona DUI Law Explained<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
<div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Driving under the influence of any drug or alcohol is a very serious crime in Phoenix.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">There are several categories of drunk driving charges in Arizona.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A Phoenix DUI case case may be brought as a felony or as a misdemeanor. For arrests in the city of Phoenix, misdemeanors are prosecuted by the Phoenix City Attorney and heard in Phoenix Municipal Court. For felonies in the city of Phoenix, and in all other cities in Maricopa County, you are prosecuted by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office and your case will be heard in Maricopa County Superior Court.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><h2 align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Misdemeanor Phoenix DUI Charges</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It is illegal to drive or be in actual physical control of a motor vehicle in Phoenix (and anywhere in AZ) while:</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Garden Variety DUI:</strong> You are mpaired to the slightest degree by alcohol or drugs.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Commercial DUI:</strong> Your alcohol content above 0.040 and you are driving a commercial vehicle.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Minor DUI:</strong> You are under 21 years old with any alcohol in your system.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Per Se DUI: </strong>Your alcohol content above 0.080 within 2 hours of driving.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Extreme DUI:</strong> Your body alcohol content above 0.150 (extreme DUI) within 2 hours of driving.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Super Extreme DUI:</strong> Your body alcohol content of .200 within 2 hours of driving.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Drugs DUI:</strong> You have an illegal drug OR its metabolite in your system (it is not required that the drug impair you in any way).</div><h2 align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />Felony Phoenix DUI Charges</h2><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">It is a very serious felony in Phoenix to commit any of the above misdemeanors while any of the following apply:</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Aggravated DUI Priors:</strong> You have two or more prior DUI convictions in within 7 years of your arrest.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Aggravated DUI Restricted License:</strong> Your privileges to drive are revoked, suspended or restricted at the time you are charged with DUI in Phoenix.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Aggravated DUI with Child in Vehicle:</strong> You have a child under 15 years old in your vehicle.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8633913066235718105.post-69170381828362978742010-03-17T06:07:00.001-07:002010-03-17T06:07:59.889-07:00Are You Facing a Phoenix DUI?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span><br />
<blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The legal and political climate in the greater Phoenix Metro area makes it perhaps the worst place in the country to be accused of DUI. Even a first offense can result in upwards of a month in jail. Because the potential penalties are so heavy, an experienced DUI attorney can make a huge difference in your case.</div><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Stewart Bergman, Attorney At Law</div><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="style3" style="color: red; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">PHOENIX DUI UPDATE:</span> <strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Effective 9.26.08</strong>. Convictions for alcohol levels between .150 and .199 require a consecutive 30 day jail sentence.</div><div align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></div><div align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div><div align="justify" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At<strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> the Bergman Law Office</strong> we focus our practice on DUI defense in the Phoenix Metro area. We work hard to advance our clients' interests, and want to show you how we can help.</div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"> </blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><h2 align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"></h2><h2 align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bolder; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Complimentary Phoenix Arizona Area DUI Case Evaluation</h2><div align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div align="left" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">You owe it to yourself to experience our high levels of expertise and service. The meeting can be in person or over the phone.</div><div style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div align="center" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><strong style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">At the case evaluation we will do several things:</strong></div><blockquote style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><ol style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><li style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Review your history, goals, concerns;</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Discuss the facts of your case;</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Outline possible defenses and potential issues for plea bargaining;</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Discuss the Phoenix (or Maricopa County area) DUI process specific to the city and court where you are being charged;</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Make a plan of action so you will know exactly what you can do to best help your case;</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Discuss our fees and fee arrangements, and in most cases, quote you a defined flat fee so there are no surprises;</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Give you time and space to make the best decision, without pressure to sign up with us or turn over financial information;</li>
<li style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, 'sans serif'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 24px; list-style-position: inside; list-style-type: disc; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Answer all of your questions to the extent that sufficient facts are available to us to comment intelligently.</li>
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