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For many ladies, the highly anticipated sequel to “Sex and the City” has been building since the closing credits of the HBO series’ booming box office debut in 2008. Finally, after what seems like an eternity, the fab four are back—and trading the Big Apple for the Arabian Desert. On Thursday, May 27, slip into your favorite pair of Manolo Blahniks or Jimmy Choos and tap into your inner Carrie Bradshaw for a larger-than-life evening filled with your best gal pals and rose-colored cosmos. Here is how the Valley plans to spend the movie opening in style.

Last fall, chart-topping country music heartthrob Dierks Bentley joined hundreds of Arizona bikers at Buddy Stubbs Harley-Davidson in North Phoenix for a two-hour ride to benefit Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Bentley, an Arizona native now living in Nashville, Tenn., graciously thanked all those who rode—and those fans who awaited his arrival at Tempe Marketplace—with an afternoon concert that included fellow singers Stoney LaRue and Jimmy Wayne, Tempe’s own Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, and Scottsdale’s Jessi Coulter. This event kick-started Bentley’s first six-city Harley-Davidson motorcycle tour; in previous years, the tour was solely Nashville-based. AFM caught up with Bentley before the ride to see what it was...