Free means it's a treat for everyone for Mother's Day. The hillside of the Mesa Amphitheater offers up the sounds of music from the largest collection of professional musicmakers in the East Valley, the Mesa Symphony. Expect a Sousa march or two and Moon River . For sure, either a mother or someone who has a mother will win the glitters, and it's real gold. That hillside seats 2,000 comfortably and 3,000 for close friends.
Picnics are welcome.
SNL alum brings comedy Also next weekend, SNL alum Victoria Jackson's comedy takes center stage at 8 p.m. May 12 at the Chandler Center for the Arts. Jackson was part of the ensemble cast of Saturday Night Live for six seasons. She probably didn't do fine poetry's reputation any good when she appeared on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show and recited poems while doing a handstand. For some, nothing's sacred.