If your looking for something to do this weekend, come out and see Andrea and Me at the Phoenix Cooks at the Biltmore. 

We're raising money for Phoneix Children's Hospital.

The valley's best chefs will there making wonderful dishes, there will be wine tasting, and Andrea and I will be MC's a celebrety chef challange at 10 am.

Saturday moring at the Biltmore, all to benefit Phoenix Children's Hospital. 

Hope to see you there!

Rick

Hope you'll get a chance to check out our new 9am hour of Fox 10 Arizona Morning.  It's going to be entertaining...with some news...some of the stories beyond the top headlines that people are talking about that day...and some features that provide you information you can use in your life right away.

Rick and Andrea host.  And all of us are part of the show.  You'll have to check out Cory's Corner.  I can't wait to see some of the places he decides to show up and just start talking to people.

We used to say that our most loyal viewers were in the "Four Hour Club."  Now, to qualify for this honor, you'll have to enter the "Five Hour Club."  And while lots of you can only tune in for a half hour or hour of your morning, I'm sure there will be some who spend all morning with us.

Thanks for making our first four hours such a ratings success.  We hope you'll love number five!

Flameless candles are the current trend for the home.  For entertaining, you can turn your house or apartment into an elegant atmosphere.  The biggest draw for flameless candles is safety.  You can leave these candles on all night and never have to worry about a house fire.  You can place flameless candles inside bookcases and other areas where you just could never put a conventional burning candle.  There is no soot and your candles remain in pristine condition.  The ambiance of flameless candles is serene and will put you in a relaxing mood right away.

There are rechargeable types as well as those that operate on batteries.  I have the kind that are rechargeable, so, I never have to worry about batteries.  Also, the LED lights will last for years.

Ok ladies, let’s be honest! When you’re at the mall looking for a new outfit, do you hate trying on clothes? Do you over analyze your body when you are in the dressing room? A new study says that most women looking in the mirror wish for a better body and find flaws.  A lot of women say shopping for clothes is bad for their self-confidence. I can definitely relate! I hate trying on jeans! I can never seem to find the right pair and it’s frustrating! Oh, and swim suits are no fun either!

Ladies, please share some of your fitting room experiences with me…I want the good, the bad and the ugly!

If you could throw a dinner party and invite any 5 people (living or deceased), who would they be?

My dinner invitation list would include:

Joan of Arc

Jackie Kennedy

Peter the Great

Mark McGwire

Richard Gere

I had such a great weekend!  I had the chance to check out Rascal Flatts in concert on Saturday and it was so much fun! They are one of my favorite groups and are even better to watch live.

What must-see concerts have you been to this summer?

Were you blown away by the Olympics' opening ceremony?

I wish I'd seen all of it, but what I caught was the most spectacular live event I've ever seen!  Communists or not, they put on an amazing show LOL. 

London has its work cut out for Summer '12... 

Goofy Teeth.

The best $12 you'll ever spend.

Come and See what we Have

Do you enjoy the people there?  Do you laugh a lot?

I gotta tell ya...  That 's us.  We laugh constantly!  On the air (inappropriate laughter is our hallmark)...  During commercial breaks...  In the morning meeting...  There are a lot of funny, quick people on our staff, and whatever the joke is, you can count on a lot of embroidery before we move on to the next topic.

It would be a BLAST to do the program with a studio audience!  You'd see the kind of nonsense that makes up our mornings.  I'm not sure who would comprise our 5 am studio audience...  Hmmm... 

Anyway, I know you'd find Ron and Rick and Alexis and Andrea and Jayme and Diane and Alexis V and Tina and Tiffany to be just as much fun in person. 

I speak to lots of children, and I always try to encourage them to remember, as they get bigger, to hold on to the things that they think are fun RIGHT NOW.  One never knows how bugs or the clarinet or juggling or math games or imitating people's voices or building tree forts might figure into one's future.  And don't let any stupid bully or boring uncle ever try to tell you that what you're doing when you're 8 years old is a waste of time.  "Who cares about drawing pictures of horses?"  Ummm...  Art schools with scholarships? 

All I ever wanted to be in school was funny and on the stage in front of people.  I guess it worked out!  (At least the "in front of people" part...)

So thanks again, for tuning in!  We'll be here for you every morning...  Please say hi anytime you see us out and about!

Hi Everyone!

   Well I am back from my few days off! My husband and I had such a great time in San Francisco. It was so cold (by my standards, I am a Phx native afterall)! I looked like such the tourist, with my 10 dollar San Francisco fleece that I bought on the street. The highs were around 65 degrees, lows in the 50's. It was absolutely beautiful! We saw all the sights, rode bikes across the Golden Gate into Sausalito then to Tiburon, ate way too much food, rode the cable cars and walked at ton! Sounds great, right? Well, here is the big bummer, Chris and I bought a camera when we got there, a fairly nice one. Ours was old and hasn't taken a decent quality picture in some time, so we thought what the heck, let's bite the bullet and get it, that was Sunday, by Monday night we had lost the brand new camera with all of our pictures! We called the cab company, the ferry service, and the restaurant and nothing turned up. Not only were we out the money, but all the pictures I said I would share with you are gone. It was not the best way to end the trip, but nonetheless, we had a fantastic time, I appreciate all of you suggestions for things to do and places to eat, we got through a lot of them!

Here I am in my 50's, and I can remember being a kid in junior high, listening to the music of James Taylor.  We were on a family vacation in 1970 or '71, driving along a highway in Northern Idaho, and a tune of his called "Carolina On My Mind" came on the radio.  I looked out the window, watching the trees rushing by, and fell in love with his music right then and there. 

So, here we are in 2008 now, and he's been around that time, consistently making great music.  And in his concert the other night in Phoenix, he showed no signs of slowing down.  He loves his band, they love him, and the audience eats up their music.  JT said at one point during show that he'd fight anyone who said he didn't have the greatest band in the world...putting up his dukes to the camera to make his point. 

But as good as that band is, where James Taylor becomes almost magical in his performance is when it's just him and his guitar, as he sits on stage under a single spotlight.  That voice of his, so unique, you recognize it instantly on the radio, is as smooth and clear today, as it was when he started cranking out hits almost 40 years ago.

It's been several years since he came to Phoenix.  And it seemed like both he and his fans didn't want to say goodbye.  The few people I saw leaving at what appeared to be the end of his show, missed a lot of encore music...another good 20 minutes worth.  Considering that the show started at 8, and didn't let out til almost 11 am, that was three great hours of music.

Except for the intermission.  "I don't know why we take 'em," he said, "but we have to, so we'll be back in 20 minutes.  All the members of his band left the stage for a well earned break.  Except for James.  And this is what makes his different.  He seems so humble, almost shy, on stage.  That's a change from so many performers who think the world revolves around them.  But Taylor never left the stage during the entire intermission.  For the full 20 minutes, he leaned over to shake hands, pose for cell phone pictures, and sign autographs.  Talk about somebody who knows he owes his success to his fans.

I realize you have to be in the 40-plus age group to have been there when some of his biggest hits first hit the airwaves.  I'm talking about songs like "Fire And Rain," "You've Got A Friend," "How Sweet It Is," "Your Smiling Face," "Mexico," and "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight."  I just hope a new generation appreciates his music, too.  His is the kind of talent we're all lucky to enjoy.

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Did you go to the show?  Do you have a favorite tune of his, even a memory of listening to his music when you were younger?  Where would you put him on the list of greatest vocalists?