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Thomas Gold: "EDM Is An Open Field... I Love It."

The Berlin-based DJ Thomas Gold will be visiting Maya, one of Scottsdale's newest hosts for EDM artists and events, this Friday. Up On The Sun spoke with Gold about his upbringing in music, how his touring and festival schedules have been going, and what we can possibly expect to see from him at Ma ... More >>

The Soft Moon: Pop for Outsiders

The sound of San Francisco's Soft Moon is disorienting: A darkly hyperactive Neu! mixed with the dance-floor sensibility of Depeche Mode and the stark despair of Bauhaus makes The Soft Moon one cynically-crafted machine. But the most disorientating tactic in frontman Luis Vazquez's arsenal is his mu ... More >>

Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

Solar Eclipsed: Why the Sun Won't Power Phoenix Despite an Industry Boom

Extraordinary Animals at the Heard's Berlin Gallery

Bell's Oarsman Ale

Beer: Oarsman Ale Brewery: Bell's Brewery Inc. Style: Berliner Weisse ABV: 4 percent To everything there is a season, and this applies to beer, as well. Whereas frosty winter nights can be thawed by a powerful stout or winter warmer, the furnace that we like to call the Arizona summer calls for li ... More >>

Lazer Sword @ Monarch Theatre

Knesset @ Phoenix Art Museum

Joanna Bolme of Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks: "I Want to Warn You: We Still Jam."

Here's kind of a crazy realization: Stephen Malkmus has been performing and recording with The Jicks longer than he played and recorded with Pavement. But following Pavement's reunion (I saw them at Coachella 2010, and had one of those mythic "Brochella Moments" with a complete stranger during "Cut ... More >>

10 Favorite Galleries in Metro Phoenix

​There are plenty of reasons to check out local artwork beyond it being one of the designated "days" our community has become so fond of. First Friday, Third Friday, Final Friday, Third Thursday, Second Saturday -- just leave the house already. Dozens of great places open their doors to cool ... More >>

Edible Spray Paint Adds Bling to Boring, Natural Food Colors: Green Asparagus Tips? Hell. No.

​The rosy red hue of an apple, the rustic brown of braised short ribs, the unrefined greens of leaf lettuce -- BOOOOORRRRR-ING! ​Now you can change the color of everything you eat (as long as it's to gold, silver, red, or blue) thanks to Esslack, a tasteless, non-toxic, edible spray pa ... More >>

Berlin @ The Canyon Club

Princess Beatrice's Hat on a Cupcake

http://www.facebook.com/cupcakesmuenchen​We never thought we'd say this, but some things really do look better on a cupcake. Like Princess Beatrice's royal mistake of a wedding hat. While seamstresses were sewing knock-off wedding dresses over the last day, Wir Machen, a bakery in Munich, Germany, ... More >>

Hard Dance Nation @ Madison Event Center

Sidebar: Bookworms

German Bundestag Delegation in State This Week to Study Immigration and Security Issues; Polls Show Germans Worried About Islamic Migrants

Image: http://www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/index.html​ Eight congressmen and congresswomen from the Bundestag, Germany's parliament, will be in Arizona this week as part of a delegation to study immigration and security issues. The delegation will be traveling to the U.S.-Mexico border, naturally ... More >>

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First Impressions

ASUAM wows with print collection

First Impressions

ASUAM wows with print collection

J.D. Hayworth Says the U.S. Never Declared War on Nazi Germany -- Tell That to Private Ryan

​Former Congressman J.D. Hayworth addressed a group of Arizona Republicans over the weekend and lent some extra credibility to the survey that ranked him among the dumbest members of Congress.The dude says the U.S. never declared war on the Nazis during World War II.Hayworth was asked a question a ... More >>

Culture Comeback

Head to the Heard for sophisticated partying

Creeper Feature

Bay Area psychobilly outfit darkens Rogue West

The Awakened Ones

Peoria shindig features 33 straight hours of EDM and enlightenment

Bringing Out the Undead

Horns & Halos hosts annual prom for the faux deceased

Film Festival at PVCC: Good Bye Lenin! @ Paradise Valley Community College Center for the Performing Arts

Film Festival at PVCC: The Lives of Others

German Rockabilly Band Plans AZ CD Release

One of the funny little things that came out of World War II is the way the Conquered Peoples of Germany and Japan joyously adopted American popular music from the time, and continue to do so. Japan, of course, has a thriving jazz scene and Germany, apparently is still in to Rockabilly. At least tha ... More >>

Meaty Girl: German Sausage Company's Landjager

Landjager is a traditional, dried German sausage made in Southern Germany and Switzerland. Though the name literally means "country hunters," there's nothing gamey about the taste of landjager. It's a popular snack food in Germany and Switzerland (like beef jerky for the U.S.), and also a popular me ... More >>

Boys Will B-Boys

And girls will b-girls at breakdancing crew's anniversary jam

Mo' Better Booze

Swank deluxe at Chez Nous

Baywatch

What does Euro metal and the Hoff have in common? Answer below.

By Odin’s Beard!

Viking metal fest sounds like a kick in the Asgard

Clothes to the Edge

Skool of Rock

Grease is the word at Manzanita

Reubens Accomplice

It's not a dill spear, either

Einstürzende Neubauten

Barbecue Nations

Aryanfest was hardly the badass event it billed itself. Shaved-headed men hugged each other like they were at a gay pride picnic.

Kreator

The German band comes to the Valley

Best Expensive Everything

Mary Elaine's

Got Milk?

Order a grande latte in Italy and that's what you'll get

Peaches

The Teaches of Peaches(Kitty-Yo)

Rail People

Into the Arms of Strangers documentary artfully tracks Holocaust Kindertransport survivors

Foreign Correspondence

More letters from the battlefield: A Phoenix soldier witnesses the destruction of Europe in 1945

Ethnic Plate Cleansing

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