The Best Venues in Phoenix
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The best venues in Phoenix, according to the experts: Phoenix New Times has weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Hideaway Lounge comes out on top, and the good stuff runs deepest in Peoria and Phoenix.
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Salt River Fields at Talking Stick and Tempe Center For The Arts hold the next two places.
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A cactus garden behind the batter's eye in center field is either deeply Arizonan or deeply on-brand for a stadium that splits duties between the Diamondbacks and Rockies each spring. Salt River Fields sits on the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community with Camelback Mountain framing certain sightlines beautifully. Grab a lawn blanket in the outfield, then slip out to the backfields before first pitch to watch players actually train.
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A wood-clad 600-seat auditorium anchors this performing and visual arts center on the edge of Tempe Town Lake, with a black box studio theater, a gallery that spills into the lobby, and an outdoor amphitheater for when Arizona evenings cooperate. The Tempe Symphony Orchestra, Childsplay, and several other resident companies call it home, so there's almost always something on. Public art installations are scattered throughout, in case you arrive early and need somewhere to look thoughtful.
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2024 · Best Open Mic Night · Best of Phoenix
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Harkins put a Sonoran hot dog on the menu and called it the future of moviegoing, which is either visionary or just very Arizona. This dine-in theater at Lake Pleasant Towne Center pairs plush recliners and personal tabletops with a full food and drinks menu you order by pushing a button, like a La-Z-Boy crossed with a TGI Friday's, in the best possible, uh, fine: it works. Phoenix New Times named it the best luxury movie theater in 2023.
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- Phoenix New Times Phoenix New Times: 2023 · Best Luxury Movie Theater · Best of Phoenix