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Archive for July, 2007

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Haji Baba. It's Not At Lake Powell.



I just got back from a ten-day houseboat vacation at Lake Powell. Lake Powell is not in Tempe, so I wouldn't feel right telling you about it. I can tell you, however, that the first meal I sought out upon returning home-- sunburned, craving the anti-hotdog and something with Vitamin E in it-- was from Haji Baba. Have you eaten at Haji Baba? Of course you have. It's at 1513 ...

Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Learn to Row on Tempe Town Lake



Sometimes when I'm driving over the Mill Avenue Bridge, I'll look out the window and see someone in a kayak rowing the length of the lake. And watching that-- the long, lean strokes out there in the middle of all that peaceful water-- makes me wish I did a little more rowing and a little less driving to and from In N Out Burger. I looked into it, and the ...

Sunday, July 1st, 2007

New Harkins Tempe Marketplace 16



Harkins has opened a brand spanking new movie theater at the corner of the Loop 101 and Loop 102. The Tempe Marketplace 16 opened on June 29th, and I was first in line on June 30th. I can't stand driving to a theater at the shopping mall and fighting over three parking spaces with seven hundred cars, so the addition of a beautiful Tempe theater that's not encapsulated in a ...