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I am a 22-year-old Mexican-American woman, still living with my parents but going to college, working full time, and taking care of myself financially. I grew up in a very...
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On a recent trip to Oregon, I ended up at West Fest, an annual event aimed at drumming up business in the western outskirts of Salem, the state's capital. Both Boston and The...
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If you live in the Phoenix area, you're obligated to badmouth Tucson at every possible opportunity. In fact, I'm sure some readers saw the word "Tucson" somewhere in or around...
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New Orleans will always be best known for the annual debauchery of Mardi Gras, but underneath its "party hardy" façade lurks one of the country's most vibrant metal...
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Not to get all up in your grill, William Safire-style, but there's a real etymological crisis going with the word "keening." It's a noun that means "a wailing lament," or the...
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We've said it before and we'll say it again: Phoenix surf-rock trio Thee Jaguar Sharks should change their name, like, yesterday. You can dick with the definitive article all...
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Since Nickelback-bashing has become almost as clichéd as the band's music, I decided to take a different approach. I registered at the band's official message board,...
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It never hurts to have friends in high places — just ask The Thermals. The Portland, Oregon-based band got a career boost when Death Cab for Cutie lead singer Ben...
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Singer/songwriter John Vesely will bring more than his smoldering emo-boy looks to the Marquee Theatre this weekend. Vesely will be in Tempe with Secondhand Serenade, his...
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When it comes to breakbeats, there's no bigger fan of the EDM genre than DJ Louder. In fact, the 31-year-old spent most of the past decade sharing his love for pounding...
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THURSDAY 3
Bobby Q's: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop)
Bomberos: Rani G., dk.stricker, & more (lounge, house)
Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance)
Club Red: The Blunt Club with Pickster...
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I hadn't really given much thought to reviewing The Lodge, a ski lodge-themed American restaurant/watering hole in Old Town Scottsdale, until a new signature menu item was...
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I was recently talking to my birth-uncle Jed (I know, I have an Uncle Jed) about eating authentic ethnic food. Jed went on and on about how he loves great Chinese food. He...
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Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the late winter of 1999. The two movies were always...
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As Tetro, Francis Ford Coppola's baroque genealogical melodrama, reaches its appropriately hysterical denouement, Vincent Gallo fixes his pale gaze on young co-star Alden...
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Beatrice Moore is feeling a little anxious. As the September 4 opening of her Kooky Krafts Shop draws near, she's worried not that no one will show up to buy her chenille...
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The funniest thing I saw the other night at Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre wasn't up on stage, but rather in the men's room. As I stood in the lavatory stall, relinquishing the...
