Weekend Guide

From pet-friendly salon shindigs to haute home tours, this weekend's filled with fun fundraisers

This weekend we’re feeling a bit charitable. (Maybe its just that we need a karmic cleanser after spending yesterday delving into the boozy world of Scottsdale nightclubs, drunken baseball players and Charlie Sheen?!?) But either way, we’ve dug up some way-cool events that also double as heart-warming fundraisers.

This Sunday, the chic Mane Attraction Salon in Phoenix is hosting a four-legged fundraiser to help prevent pet euthanasia here in the Valley. Named the 11th Annual Beauty to the RESCUE, patrons (and their pups) can partake in a day of personal pampering, as well as enjoy free food and beverages and live music by killer local bands such as Elvis before Noon. Plus, there will be an on-site mobile dog groomer, as well as a pet psychic and animal communicator conduction readings (seriously). Guests are simply asked to make a minimum donation to benefit RESCUE, a Valley-based non-profit that has helped find a home for nearly 10,000 local pets.

Meanwhile, if you’re more into decor than doggies, get out and enjoy the wonderful weather with a home tour of nine of the Valley’s most magnificent manors. Hosted this Sunday, the Go Daddy Tour for Life takes you inside a lavish Mediterranean-style estate in the heart of Paradise Valley, as well as the Modern masterpiece known as the “House of Earth and Light.” Most important, this self-guided tour benefits the Southwest Center for HIV/AIDS, Arizona’s most comprehensive nonprofit AIDS service organization providing a combination of prevention, research and wellness support to the 14,000 Greater Phoenix residents suffering from this deadly disease.

Whew! We’ll be back next week with with our usual light-hearted stuff, but until then, please help us support these invaluable Valley organizations.