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It's a warm November evening, and another First Friday is winding down at Portland's Restaurant & Wine Bar on the edge of downtown Phoenix. The pulsing bass blaring from the...
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio and Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas have defiled our town square with hanging corpses: five county supervisors, four superior court judges, two...
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Nothing says “holiday season” quite like an African-American, pistol-toting gramma with attitude. Or so says Tyler Perry, who’s taken his fictional matriarch,...
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For two weeks every December, the oldest FM radio station in the country, Columbia University’s WKCR, dedicates two continuous weeks to playing the sounds of J.S. Bach....
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It's the day after New Year’s Day. If you happen to be older than 25, you're probably still hungover, so what you need is some great grub. No worries because all you have...
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Yay, the New Year!
Boo, the New Year’s hangover!
Sorry for screaming at you with the exclamation points, especially if you’re reading this on New Year’s Day...
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Sometimes an artist cannot find words, so he must create a vocabulary through his art.
Sixty miles east of Phoenix in the tiny mining/antiques town of Miami, Arizona, Ken...
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Unless you were dubbed the designated driver last night, there’s a good chance your New Year’s Day consists of a 20-count box of Alka-Seltzer tablets and a Snuggy....
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We’ve seen some bizarre things on First Friday in Phoenix – fire-eaters, people dressed as Ghostbusters, some crazy half-naked chick sporting a bunch of red lipstick...
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The record-spinning, knob-twisting, and beat-juggling DJs of the Valley’s club scene can sometimes be quite the competitive lot. Every weekend the turntable titans of...
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If idle hands are the devil's tools, Allison Karow has nothing to worry about.
As if getting her phalanges dirty while keeping Tempe bike co-operative Bike Saviours (which...
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Have you been smooch-less during New Year's Eve past? Well, look no further than Scottsdale’s Ultimate Block Party. Because, once the clock hits midnight, there will be...
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The Devils and Bruins take each other on in a Sunday matinee.
Sun., Jan. 3, 2 p.m., 2010
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Photography has come a long way in the past twenty years. Film is practically obsolete, teens have better cameras than their parents, and, thanks to the magic of Photoshop,...
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People love rooting for an underdog, which is crap when you think about it. The Ivan Drago’s of the world work damn hard to get where they are; their reward is that their...
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The aggro folks that are talking junk on John Junker for picking the Boise State-Texas Christian match-up for the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl need to do something. Namely, get over...
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Have some rich friends living downtown? Well, this is the time to make them do you a favor so that you can view the Fort McDowell Fiesta Bowl Parade in person.
Everybody...
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Downtown Tempe's annual New Year's Eve blowout includes beer gardens, fireworks displays, street performers, and motocross-racer appearances.
Thu., Dec. 31, 6...
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It rules when traditionally crap teams suddenly play all awesome, and there have been plenty of them this college-football season. Along with Temple and Idaho, habitual...
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At a recent reading, author Sherman Alexie lamented his sons’ relationship to music. Gone are the days of waiting for physical albums to come out, waiting in line at...
