The Community Circle Players (CCP) has always had the vision of bringing sophisticated wide-ranging plays to the SaddleBrooke audience and since 2016 have delivered. Comedy often makes its appearance but CCP has delivered serious drama (Witness for the Prosecution) and plays that are directly targeted to the over 65 [...]
CONTRIBUTED BY OUR RESIDENT ERMA BOMBECK...\November 30th. 2025 Dishing Retirement Life with a Side of Prickly Pear By the time the last piece of pumpkin pie was stuffed, and the tryptophan fog settled over Saddlebrooke, I did what any responsible journalist would do. I poured a modest digestif (medicinal), [...]
BY GLORIA WOLF MPH and PROFESSIONAL FOODIE| November 23rd, 2025 Thanksgiving dinner is a tradition and in our family, traditionally at our house. Year after year I made fresh cranberry orange relish and year after year I mostly ate it myself. I loved it, but I think I was [...]
Sonoran Sue Speaks Out I was out on the town this week, fighting traffic, when I realized we have officially entered the most confusing season of all: that magical, bewildering, fattening stretch known as Hallogiving, which starts in September, soon to be followed by its even more unhinged cousin, [...]
SUBMITTED BY A SADDLEBROOKE VETERAN| November 15th, 2025 Editor's Note: SaddleBrooke has its own tyrannical elements-a tiny minority of people who think that any event held in HOA spaces must be free of any religious expression or overtones (unless it is their religion) of course. SBINSIDER will attempt to [...]
EDITOR'S NOTE: SaddleBrooke is home to a concentration of highly educated and successful residents. This review was submitted by one of those and the author asked for anonymity. The events depicted in “Nuremberg” are largely a precursor to the classic 1981 movie “Judgment at Nuremberg”. Only a small portion of [...]
SBINSIDER ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER NOEL COWARD| November 9th, 2025 The Community Circle Players (CCP) have decided to add a Fall program to delight and entertain the SaddleBrooke audience. Generally, CCP shows have been presented in the March time frame, allowing time to the myriad of talented performers to return back [...]
With A Song In My Heart; a Free Music Matinee concert at 2 pm in the Desert View Performing Arts stage, sponsored by Senior Village of SaddleBrooke. Deborah’s vocal stylings will take you on a melodic journey of Pop, Jazz, Broadway and Classical songs to thrill your heart and [...]
Sonoran Sue Speaks Out: Out and about in the ‘Brooke today. How silly of me to forget! It’s Halloween — that magical time when mature adults (and I use that term the way Fry’s uses “fresh”) transform into a mob of sugar-fueled toddlers in polyester costumes. Let’s get one [...]
FROM HISTORY TODAY The jack-o’-lantern has its roots in Irish lore — specifically, the legend of a man called “Stingy Jack,” who tried to trick the devil and suffered the consequences. There are many versions of the tale, but the gist is that Jack invited the devil for a drink but [...]
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