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Phoenix New Times writers won top honors for column writing and blogging at the Arizona Press Club's annual awards banquet, held Saturday at Arizona State University's...
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JOE AND HIS NAZIS
It only makes sense: "Ja, Joe!" was interesting and seems
reasonable and reasoned. It's only logical
that neo-Nazis would gravitate toward someone who, in...
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My wife and I have an argument going on about pirates. And since you are the source for all things Mexican. I'd thought I'd ask: While I know there were Spanish and Portuguese...
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Garage-rock gal pals Rachel Nagy and Mary Ramirez have gone through a lot of men in their day. Drummers. Guitarists. Bassists. All kinds.
When an interviewer makes light of...
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I've never understood the obsession with garage rock you'll find in
some corners of Phoenix. I like garage rock, sure, but I'm from Akron,
Ohio, a Rust Belt town with strong...
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After conducting a thorough scientific evaluation (involving an
array of test tubes and beakers, a Bunsen burner, and some heavy duty tongs) of Fleetwood Mac's 17 studio...
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It's a liberating feeling to break free from a commitment or
relationship that was holding you back. From time to time in the life of an artist, a creative funk comes along...
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So lovely. So talented. So appallingly young. Can there be any doubt that Taylor Swift was sent to Earth to make the planet's collective over-20 population feel like a bunch...
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Are you "down with the clown?" Which is to say, are you the
slightest bit interested in watching five sugar-crazed Midwesterners don face paint and rap about ax murder? If so,...
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Back when I used to write for another Valley weekly that shall
remain nameless, we used to play a game called "Nickelback
Or . . . ?" The object was to...
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Two things about The Thermals: The Portland, Oregon indie-punk band made its first album, 2003's More Parts Per Million, for approximately $6 (they recorded it at home on six...
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Ho-hum. Another week, another militant vegan band comes to town. If you didn't get your fill (pun intended) at last week's Earth Crisis show, the lovable "veganarchists" in...
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Few things symbolize summertime in the Valley better than a raucous pool party. Many a scorched Phoenician has found relief from the triple-digit temps while lounging around...
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THURSDAY 21
Bomberos: DJ Rani "g," dk.strickler, & guests (house,
global soul)
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Cherry Lounge: Scandalous Thursday with DJ Juan Rocha
(house,...
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I've seen the future of breakfast in Phoenix, and it is called
Scramble.
I say that not because the menu is so cutting-edge — it's
heavy on classics like biscuits and...
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Both warning and advertisement, the Terminator films are
technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising this decade's model
of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...
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Writer-director Rian Johnson fashions a universe in which time is a
fluid thing — where everything takes place in a familiar today
and an otherworldly yesterday, where...
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Walk through SMoCA's "Seriously Funny" exhibition and you'll be
entertained. But don't expect every piece to make you, um, lol.
At first, I was disappointed with the show. I...
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"Okay, so, the guy was like a total loser."
"No way!"
"Way. His Facebook photo is like 20 years old, and he hasn't
worked since March."
"I thought this was the...
