Tucson

Following an extravagant weekend of holiday meals, overstuffing and seasoned ingredients, it can be hard to go back to the normal day-in-day-out fare. Luckily, next week yet another culinary date is on the schedule.

As 2011 approaches, how will you welcome it? A new year harnessing new experiences awaits and Tucsonans know how to usher it in right. The Tucson Jazz Society will once again host its 5th Annual New Year’s Eve Gala at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa.

I first met Philip Manus in 2008 when I was asked to model his pieces for a charity fashion show. Before then I would have never guessed that he was the man behind some of the most feminine and sophisticated clothing I have ever seen in Arizona.

Snow equates with the holidays for so many, yet here in the desert white Christmas’s are hard to come by. This holiday season, enjoy some make-shift powder and holiday wonder at Enchanted Snowfall presented by La Encantada Shopping Center in Tucson.