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When Jamie Bates boarded Delta Flight 86 bound for London, she was excited and a little nervous. She'd just graduated and was about to set off on the trip of a lifetime: 28...
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On a recent Friday night, people from all over the world are watching local "Bohemian Geek Soul" artist Jody Gnant kick my ass at bowling.
Gnant's been broadcasting her life...
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This whole burger trend has really gotten out of hand.
Whatever happened to a nice, juicy hamburger, big enough to hold with both hands, and cooked just the way you like it?...
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In Neil Jordan's new movie, Jodie Foster plays New York talk-radio personality Erica Bain, who survives a vicious Central Park mugging and becomes an urban crusader devoted to...
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Two years after its New York Theatre Workshop debut, Caryl Churchill's A Number is remembered primarily as the play that brought actor/playwright Sam Shepard back to the stage...
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Typically, first-person shooters are a lot like virtual shooting galleries: Great fun, yes, but not exactly thought-provoking.
So it's nice when an FPS comes along that's...
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You don't have to be a dim bulb to dig American Idiot Karoake, just well-lit. And how convenient! The home of this weekly croak-off offers $2.50-call specials, so 10 bucks'll...
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Best Sunday brunch in the Valley? It’s hard to beat the Phoenician, but it’s also – gulp – hard to face the music, as it were, when that little check with...
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If you’re perpetually single because you’re too terrified and cowardly to take emotional risks, the toughest part has to be the inevitable dry spell. Could be...
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Now that school is back in session, students everywhere are probably indulging their inner artist -- much to the chagrin of their teachers, because it's not notes the kids are...
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Know those water closets on wheels that Europeans call cars? Not big fans. But give us a good ol' American Dwarf Car and we're ready to rumble. Desert Dwarfs, stocks, bombers,...
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Are there any Gin Blossoms fans in the house? Of course there are, seeing as how Phoenix is the last city in the world to have a thriving ´90s alternative-Americana scene...
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The so-called Flight of the Earls of 1607 is an incredibly complex and riveting tale that we wish we had room to tell. In a nutshell, a couple of royal bigwigs left Ireland...
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Anti-immigration crackpots might want to give Barrios Unidos Park this weekend unless they wanna be mobbed by an estimated crowd of 125,000 at the eighth annual Food City...
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Since you don't have time to flit around the globe, the folks at Diverse-Fi Music have been good enough to bring the world to you for the last 365-odd days. Diverse-Fi's...
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French novelist Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) was so overwhelmed by Florence, Italy, that he reported: "I felt a pulsating in my heart. Life was draining out of me, while I...
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As much as we try to be good, we can’t help but spread gossip and ruin character. It’s human nature; we get off on knowing each other’s secrets. And no matter...
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We often feel like grabbing one of those raggedy-ass alt/indie musicians by the scruff and screaming, "It's about the songs, dood!" One alt/indie musician who knows wassup is...
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Even those who weren't yet born in 1968 know Hendrix, The Who, Floyd, the Beatles, Cream (pictured). But try to name five "modern" acts that have even approached that sort of...
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Writing is hard. For some people. Like us. So we take a dim view of those who casually toss off book after best-selling book as larks between more, well, important things....
