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An Arizona-based food, beverage and travel writer since 2008, I launched this website in 2015 to document my culinary adventures, beverage escapades, gardening endeavors, and travel in the Phoenix area and beyond. Also find a comprehensive calendar of Phoenix-area food and drink-related events on my Events page.

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Drive The Dream Gala with Headliner Clint Black

Childhelp, the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit dedicated to eliminating child abuse, will host its 19th Annual Childhelp Drive the Dream Gala on February 18th, 2023, at The Phoenician, in Scottsdale.  Grammy-award winner Clint Black is the headline entertainment for the gala, which will be emceed by television personalities Melissa Peterman  and Rex Linn. Other acts include Western swing great Red Steagall, Nate Nathan & The MacDaddy-os, Rosevelt Rawls, and Steve Amerson. The gala will include dinner, dancing and a live auction to benefit the Childhelp Children’s Center of Arizona.

Among those honored at the gala will be ‘the Queen of Country’ Reba McEntire, who will receive the Childhelp Woman of the World Award, and Dream City Church Pastor Tommy Barnett, who will receive the Childhelp Man of the World.