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Kick off the summer season (before things get too hot) with the Brews Cruise along the Arizona canal

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Memorial Day Weekend Canal Brews Cruise

Chances are you don't have to go to work on Monday, which is always cause to celebrate -- and by celebrate we mean drink, heavily. On Sunday, May 25, you can enjoy a few beers while also soaking up the summer sun by participating in the annual Memorial Weekend Canal Brews Cruise hosted by San Tan Brewery. The ride begins at Kelly's at South Bridge where participants will enjoy a pint of San Tan beer and fuel up with some snacks. From there they'll head to three other locations located along the Arizona canal and at each stop will get to enjoy another beer from San Tan Brewery. The event will conclude with a party at Dos Gringos in Old Town. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased online.

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Schnepf Farms' fresh peaches are ripe for the picking.

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Schnepf Farms Peach Festival

Sweet, sticky peach juice will be running down a lot of chins this weekend at the Schnepf Farms Peach Festival in Queen Creek. There will be plenty of ripe peaches to pick from the orchards, with hay rides to get you there, and if you'd rather just enjoy the fruits of the farm, you can fill up on peachy pancakes, peach pies, and other treats at the Peach Sampling Pavilion. There will also be live music, craft vendors, and contests. The festival runs from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday, and admission is free for all ages. Can't make it this weekend? Schnepf Farms will host the hoopla again from Saturday, May 25, to Monday, May 27.

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Lost Coast Brewery, pouring here, will be at Saturday's Scottsdale Beer Festival.

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Inaugural Scottsdale Beer Festival

This Saturday from 6 to 10 p.m. at WestWorld, the first Scottsdale Beer Festival will hosted by Drink:Eat:Play, organizers of events like the LA Bacon & Beer festivals, San Francisco Brew Festival, and Chicago Beer Festival. The $40 admission gets you sample pours from 50-some beer makers, including locals Grand Canyon Brewing Company and Cartel, hard-to-find craft beers like Logsdon Farmhouse Ales from Oregon, and international imports such as Thistly Cross Cider and Tripel Karmeliet. There will also be food available, sold separately. Tickets must be purchased in advance.

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courtesy Arcadia Crewz

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Restaurant Crawl: Arcadia Crewz Derby Day
The Kentucky Derby, along with being the best-known national horse race, also involves a tradition of eating and drinking all day long. It just makes sense: The race only lasts two minutes, but the spectator aspect of the sport goes on for hours. This Saturday, May 4, join in on the fun at an event dubbed Arcadia Crewz. For $30, riders can graze at three restaurants: s.e.e.d. Café, O.H.S.O. Eatery & Nanobrewery, and Kitchen 56. Bikes are the steed of choice for this restaurant crawl, and there will be a parking lot party in the Madison Improvement Club for cyclists before the ride begins. Then each stop will offer two or three appetizers along with discounted drinks. Riders can meet for the pre-ride party beginning at 9 a.m.; the crawl begins at 11 a.m. and ends at 2 p.m.

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Ryan Wolf

Salsa in the raw at last year's salsa challenge.

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29th Annual My Nana's Best Tasting Salsa Challenge

Great salsa is something often taken for granted in Arizona, where we have more Mexican restaurants and hot sauces than we know what to do with. This Saturday, salsa gets all the love it deserves at My Nana's Best Tasting Salsa Challenge, held at Tempe Beach Park from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pros and amateurs alike will be competing for the grand prize of $1000, and attendees can vote for their favorite to win the People's Choice Award. To help you cool off, there will also be a Margarita Mix-Off competition, which ends at 3:30. The festival features over 100 homemade salsas, 3000 pounds of tortilla chips, kids' activities, live music, and the Macayo's Food Court. Tickets are $10 in advance online, $15 at the gate, and $55 for VIPs, and proceeds will benefit the Arizona Hemophilia Association. Get tickets here.

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Molly Smith

Arizona Barbecue Festival 2011

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- Mesquite Chocolate Chips Cookies from Super Chunk Sweets & Treats (Head to the Old Town Scottsdale Famers' Market)

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Barry Lewis

The Feast table in London extended from one end of the bridge to the other, spanning the River Thames.

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(Free!) Feast on the Street

For five years running, Clare Patey has managed to shut down a bridge in London to invite thousands of people to celebrate local food. Now the internationally recognized artist and curator has her sights set on Phoenix, thanks to Arizona artist and farming activist Matthew Moore of Urban Plough. On Saturday, April 13, from 2 to 9 p.m., the two artists will turn Roosevelt Row into a community celebration of foods grown, prepared, and sourced in Phoenix. The free event will include local food trucks, tasting stations, and cooking demonstrations, and there will be live music and street performances. A half-mile-long dining table, the epicenter of Feast on the Street, will be filled with goods by more than 20 local chefs and culinary experts. There also will be a mobile garden parade in the afternoon, lectures about desert plants and agricultural history, food-related storytelling, seed art and other crafts, and demonstrations including how to harvest mesquite flour from beans and composting. The eats kick off at 2:15 with an Event Opening Salad Toss, when fresh, local ingredients will be mixed parachute-style.

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Farm Workers and Mt. Williamson

Looking for something to put in your mouth this weekend? Be sure to start the night off with a big dose of sugar, in the form of the fourth annual Caramelpalooza, tonight (Friday) at 7 at Biltmore Fashion Park. And after that, we've still got you covered. Check out what's on our plate.

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Arts & Drafts: Private Ansel Adams Collection at World of Beer

When you think of a gallery show held in a bar, you might expect to find some good ol' college tries or undeveloped talent. But that's far from the case at Tempe's World of Beer, located in the 100-year-old Tempe National Bank building on Mill Avenue. The craft beer house is currently home to a private Ansel Adams collection, on display through 8 p.m. Sunday, April 7. Access to the selected original works, which are hung in the bank vault, is $8 and includes a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale draft. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Tempe Festival of the Arts.

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Wingstock 2013

Wings are the thing this weekend.

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Wingstock 2013

Grab a stack of wetnaps and be sure to bring a glass of milk to counter the intense heat because the Valley's Third Annual Wingstock is coming to the Mesa Amphitheatre on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Last year's overall champ, Native New Yorker Mesa, will return to defend its title against competitors like The Hungry Monk and ATL Wings. The festival will include a wing-eating contest, an Easter egg hunt hosted by HENdrix the Wingstock mascot (at 10:30 a.m.), and live music from bands including Johnny Anonymous. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 the day of the event, and kids 10 and under get in free. And don't forget to bring cash for wing tickets, available for $3 for 4, or $10 for 14.

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Always wanted to own a dragon fruit cactus? Now's your chance.

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Arizona Rare Fruit Grower's Spring Plant Sale

Love homegrown food? Don't miss this unique plant sale at the Maricopa County Cooperative Extension Office (near Sky Harbor International Airport) on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. There will be a huge selection of fruiting trees and plants, including bananas, guavas, pomegranates, star fruit, figs, loquat, avocados, dragon fruit cactus, peaches, and apricots. In addition, the Arizona Herb Association will be selling herbs and selected plants. The event will also feature a hands-on apple tree grafting workshop at 10 a.m. The cost is $5, and participants get to take home a 1-gallon tree. There will also be a 4H barbecue with hamburgers, veggie burgers, hot dogs, and lemonade.

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