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Light Fixture

DBG brings back its annual display of firepower

By Lilia Menconi

Published on November 22, 2007

Just like those idiot moths and mosquitoes that get fried by bug zappers, we often succumb to the bright and shiny. We regularly cook ourselves in pods lined with UV rods despite the fact that we live in one of the sunniest damn places on the planet. We're addicted. So it's no wonder that Desert Botanical Garden's Las Noches de las Luminarias is so popular. With the early sunsets of winter, we need our fix and we need it bad, baby. Step into the sparkly smorgasbord of thousands of stringed lights and glowing sand bags that line the paths and plants of the Garden.
Thursdays-Sundays, 5:30-9:30 p.m. Starts: Nov. 23. Continues through Dec. 23, 2007


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