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Phoenix Coyotes Don't Finish Last in the NHL in Attendance (but Do Finish Second-to-Last)

The average attendance at Phoenix Coyotes games was higher this year than it has been since the 2008-2009 season.Unfortunately for the Coyotes, that doesn't mean much -- Long Island is the only place in North America with an NHL team where fans show up in smaller numbers.See also:-Phoenix Coyotes Al ... More >>

Bear Republic Racer 5, In Beer And Whiskey Form

Beer: Racer 5 Brewery: Bear Republic Brewing Co. Style: American IPA ABV: 7 percent Brewing beer and distilling whiskey are closely related enterprises. To make beer, all you need to do is add yeast to a boiled blend of malted barley and hops called wort. To make whiskey, you take hops out the equ ... More >>

Cocktail Lovers' Anti-Gift Guide: What NOT To Get

Ring the bell, it's time for Last Call, where JK Grence, bartender at Shady's, serves up booze advice and recipes. Got a burning question for your bartender? Leave it in the comments and it might be answered in a future column. There are some really cool stocking stuffers for aspiring bartenders. T ... More >>

Joe Arpaio Still Trying to Invite Himself to the White House to Drink Obama's Alcohol

For the second time, Sheriff Joe Arpaio had publicly attempted to invite himself to the White House and consume President Obama's alcohol.We can't remember the last time Arpaio actually succeeded in inviting himself to meet someone (examples: George Lopez, Puente, the Mayor of Columbus, the CEO of C ... More >>

Bark Bark Bark @ Yucca Tap Room

Top Five (Well, Six, Kind Of) Must-See Shows This Weekend

Curious about what's going on around town this weekend? Need some suggestions where to rock, dance, or krump in the Valley of the Sun? Don't fret: These are our Five Shows to See This Weekend.

Within These Walls Festival Celebrates Hardcore

Ask a Mexican on the Gabacho Ego and Columbus Day

Paul Ryan, You Might Wanna Relisten to These Rage Against the Machine Songs

Dear Paul Ryan, Congrats on getting the nod for Romney's VP. Must be a big month for you. While you and I probably won't ever agree politically, I realize we have a few things in common. You and I are both male carbon-based lifeforms that breath oxygen and the melanin in our epidermis means we don' ... More >>

What Are the Top 10 Most "Spotified" Songs in Phoenix?

You have to look pretty hard for someone who doesn't have an opinion about Spotify, the Swedish music streaming service that launched in 2008 and hit the States in 2011. It's hard to deny its ease, selection, and um, free-ness, but it's also been a magnet for controversy. In both the controversial ... More >>

Oskar Blues Deviant Dale's

​Beer: Deviant Dale's Brewery: Oskar Blues Brewery Style: American IPA ABV: 8 percent   Let's talk for a moment about cans. See, from years of being exposed to canned beer that just happens to be the cheapest, blandest stuff on the market, we've been conditioned to think that cans denote low ... More >>

AndyTalk: You Say Tomato, I Say Let's Get Cooking

There were no tomatoes in Italian food until the late 17th or early 18th century. Indigenous to the New World, it was well after Columbus set sail that tomatoes made their way to the tables of Europe. There were no tomatoes on my own table until about 15 years ago. I grew up a bit of a fussy eat ... More >>

Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams Now in Arizona

If you don't know about Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams, the popular "cow to cone" artisan ice cream from Jeni Britton Bauer, or just wondered when the heck the Columbus-based company was going to make their way into Arizona so you could stop ordering online already, read on, you're going to like this. ... More >>

Clown Shoes Tramp Stamp

Zach Fowle​Beer: Tramp Stamp Brewery: Clown Shoes Style: Belgian IPA ABV: 7 percent "Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye." - Jeremy Grey, Wedding Crashers Another newbie to the Arizona desert, Clown Shoes is actually contract brewed through Mercury Brewing Company in Ipswich, ... More >>

Maui Coconut Porter

Zach Fowle ​The beer: CoCoNut PorTeRThe brewery: Maui Brewing Co. Style: Robust PorterABV: 6 percent Say aloha to Maui Brewing Co., the newest entrant riding the waves of the Arizona craft beer scene. Coming all the way from Lahaina, Hawaii, Maui's microbrews all come in cans -- a conscious ... More >>

Ethnic Studies: Doug MacEachern's Anti-Intellectual Quackery

Courtesy of the Three Sonorans blog. Now here's a quiz: What do all these people have in common? Just a coincidence, I'm sure...It's the easiest thing in the world to label someone a Marxist, a commie or un-American. You don't need any real evidence. All you need to do is show that someone read the ... More >>

The Church Mark 30 Years Together With New Singles Collection and Early Album Re-issues

Drew ReynoldsThree decades into their career, The Church were inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association Hall of Fame.​While it's been more than two decades since Australia's The Church were anywhere near the mainstream in the United States, the band made, and continues to ma ... More >>

Rana Singh Sodhi and Surinder Singh of Guru Palace, Part Two

Rana Singh Sodhi and Surinder Singh (no relation) of Guru Palace are ready to make a bet: Try Indian food once, and you'll be hooked. Today, Sodhi and Singh break down for us all the spices that make up curry, build a case for why their naan is better than the White House's.

Come On Go With Us

First Taste: Marcella's Italian Kitchen In Scottsdale

  Marcella's Spaghetti Carbonara -- with pasta, eggs, and bacon, how can you go wrong? ​We got an early glimpse of the new casual Italian restaurant opening at Scottsdale Fashion Square in a preview dinner last night: Marcella's Italian Kitchen. Suffice it to say, we're still full ... More >>

The Mexican on cultural assimilation and the Scottish Parliament

RJD2 at Clubhouse Music

Taser Aftershock!

Turns out much-maligned stun guns are a good thing overall

In for a Bean, in for a Burrito

Don't be hecho un mendigo by those cholos

Hogan's Hero

Stranger in a familiar land

Native Twist

Ryan Singer spins his own slice of life on canvas

Wet Kisses

Surf yarn shows social changes

Renaissance Woman

Hazel paints from the past

How many wives is too many wives?

Letters from the week of May 8, 2003

Letters

Letters from the week of January 16, 2003

Faith No More

Letters from the week of August 29, 2002

Lab Rats

The University of Arizona's push to become one of the nation's great research institutions has paid off -- but at what cost to the state, faculty and students?

The Pound of Music

STOMP motion comes to the Orpheum

Ricky Redux

This latest Latin sensation is nothing new

Mission To Marcia

Meet alien abductee/author/prophet Marcia Schafer and the UFO-seeing, consciousness- raising, technology-obsessed new wave of New Age

Letter in a Battle

Rediscovered cache of castoff communiqués captures World War II and 1940s Phoenix

Bringing Up Baba Ghanouj

Running Against the Heard

Contemporary Indian art is a bust at museum shows

Expatriotism

U.S. Serbs take to the streets to protest the bombing

Second Helpings

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

GIVE 'EM HAIL, HURRY!

FOR THE ARIZONA THUNDERSTORM CHASERS, THE SKY'S THE LIMIT. AND THEREIN LIES THE RUB.

ON GOLDEN PAWN

DESPERATE PEOPLE WILL HOCK ALMOST ANYTHING FOR QUICK CASH. THAT'S WHY PAWNSHOPS ARE BUSTLING, AND THE COPS ARE BUSTING

PROPHETIC PROFESSORASU INSRUCTOR'S NOVELLA FORETOLD ZAPATISTA UPRISING IN CHIAPAS

PARENTS' PROGRESS

THEY LOOKED TO RUSSIA FOR ADOPTIONS AND GOT HEARTACHES INSTEAD. NOW THERE ARE HAPPY ENDINGS.

GET A READING ON THE NAVAJO-HOPI DISPUTE

HAVANA WONDERFUL TIME

Good-Bye, Columbus

"(Re)(Un)(Dis)Covering America: A Counter Quincentenary Celebration"