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This Is What Your St. Patrick's Day Could Have Looked Like Through Google Glass

Comedy group stuntbear takes a good hard humorous look at the future through the lens of Google Glass. For those of us who haven't been keeping up with the latest tech news, Glass is a pair of augmented reality glasses that promise to take us one step closer to our Minority Report future, in which a ... More >>

10 Instagram Tips for the Food Lover

Hard core food nerds know that Instagram isn't actually about photography or being social. It's all about the food. We're snapping away every time we sit down to eat and can't stop salivating over each other's meals. But as with all social media, it's time to pause and put down some ground rules. ... More >>

What Would Life Be Like Without Technology? A Onetime Addict Finds Out

Shine Interview: Tania Katan

Haymarket Squares Blast Sheriff Joe With New Video; Raise Money For New Record

See also: Haymarket Squares Aren't Afraid to Get Political See also: The Anti-Arpaio Haymarket Squares Storm the Cronkite Building (Video) Local "punkgrass" combo The Haymarket Squares isn't afraid to ruffle feathers. The band's 2010 record Dancing in the Streets features divisive songs like "Bulle ... More >>

Anatomy of a Polvorone with Minerva Orduño Rincón of Muñeca Mexicana Handcrafted Food

See also: FnB Line Cook Minerva Orduño Launches Muñeca Mexicana Product Line When you're cooking, it's all about a dash of this and a splash of that. But baking is another matter, an exact science. In this series, we're going behind the bakery case and into the kitchens of some of Phoenix's fines ... More >>

The Young Rock in the Great Wide Open

The Young Rock in the Great Wide Open

Battleship: Because Every Generation Needs an Armageddon

Meghan McCain: Not a Lesbian. "Strictly Dickly," She Says

​Meghan McCain, daughter of Senator John McCain, isn't a lesbian.That's about the most important fact we derived from her new Q&A with Playboy, in which she mostly talked about dudes and some politics.McCain was asked to expand upon her recollection of a girls trip to Sedona after her father's ... More >>

Super Bowl Prostitution Hoax: Indianapolis Mobilizes for an Epic Battle with an Urban Legend

Sundance 2012 Was Thick with the Anxieties of our Times

The More Loudon Wainwright III Changes, the More He Stays the Same

Reggae Music and Jokes Collide at Sail Inn This Upcoming Saturday

​​Bob Marley once said that "One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain." Reggae music, especially, has a way of making you forget your problems. Maybe because the kinds of people who listen to it are the usually same kind of people who enjoy getting ferociously high. At ... More >>

French Quarter Tour Diary - Week 2

The southern California leg concluded nicely. Thanks to a great promoter and the draw of some awesome local rippers, we played to 130 kids at The Smell in Los Angeles, a well-known downtown all-ages space with a relatively big stage. We don't normally get the opportunity to play with big PAs and dru ... More >>

Kara Roschi, What Are You Listening To?

Kara Roschi​Kara Roschi The local artist is co-owner of Practical Art. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? I am proud to be car-free! But when I did have one, it was NPR in the afternoons, KSLX in the evenings ('specially Gettin' the L ... More >>

Fox News Sparks Controversy Over Common's White House Invitation

​Being biased is just another part of doing jobs at Fox News. This time, they're suddenly changing their opinion of rapper Common now that he has received an invitation to a White House event, according to Rolling Stone.Fox News has labeled Common as a "vile rapper" without any support. The claim ... More >>

If Video Game Characters Became Rock Stars...

Brütal Legend, a 2009 video game released by Electronic Arts, featured voice work by Jack Black, Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford and a soundtrack of more than 100 hard rock and metal songs.​Over the past three decades, two institutions have constantly remained near-unive ... More >>

Patrick Boll of Spotted Donkey Cantina ii, part two

Keyon Fareghi​For Patrick Boll of Spotted Donkey Cantina ii, a two-word response to any question simply will not suffice. We got all of the trivial stuff out of the way yesterday and today get into a more intuitive conversation with him about his future as well as that of downtown Phoenix. In a ... More >>

Veolia Transportation Subpoenas Records From Yahoo, Union Boss, Others in Search of Who Leaked Unflattering Internal E-Mails

Veolia Transportation is bent on finding out who leaked internal company e-mails. ​While Veolia Transportation, the company that operates Phoenix city buses, is in the midst of contentious negotiations with the bus drivers' union, corporate executives are dropping subpoenas to gain access to ... More >>

Fry Girl's Year of Eating Dangerously

Jack White Angry With eBay Auction Participants

​Jack White is pissed off at his own fans, according to Antiquiet. Jack's own Third Man Records' recent eBay auctions for one of five copies of the White Stripes' rare first album reissue didn't quite go as planned. He's angry at flippers, the fans that buy these albums for cheap prices and resell ... More >>

Andrew Levi Hiller, What Are You Eating?

Andrew Levi Hiller​ Andrew Levi Hiller The singer/songwriter for Wizards of Time, who also loves to paint, is currently working on the band's first 12-song album, called Will the Soft Curse Plague On?, to be released in early 2011. You can hear a teaser with three 15-second song clips here. H ... More >>

Chaka Chaka Rocks a Mean Jerk Chicken Sandwich

​I'm psyched about a new restaurant called Chaka Chaka, and not just because it's five minutes away from my office. The place also happens to make a delicious jerk chicken sandwich that chef-owner Charlie Blonkenfeld says is the signature dish at his week-old eatery, located just south ... More >>

Mood Swings

Cool tunes, daddy-o

50 Cent at Celebrity Theatre

Luke Holwerda50 Cent live at Celebrity Theatre.I have to admit, I wasn't really expecting much from 50 Cent's show last night. Maybe it's unfair to Fiddy, but the last few mainstream rap shows I've attended have led me to believe that commercial rap stars have at least one annoying trait in common w ... More >>

Rapper Pitbull Cancels Phoenix Show In Protest Over SB 1070

Pitbull, sinking his teeth into SB 1070Cuban-American rapper Armando "Pitbull" Perez is taking a bite out of Arizona over the state's "papers please" legislation by canceling a stop in Phoenix  at the Celebrity Theatre as part of his "Mr. Worldwide's Carnival" tour.The popular rapper, perhaps b ... More >>

The Love Me Nots in Europe: The Hilarious Google-Translated Version

http://happy-few.tumblr.comA fan photo from the Love Me Nots European tour.​How is The Love Me Nots tour of Europe going? Pretty well, at least according to the foreign language reviews we're reading with the help of Google Translate.Now, honestly, it's sorta hard to tell just how professional the ... More >>

Beauty and the East

Asian festival explores exotic grub and culture

All About the Bacon at Smeeks

​Leading up to Caramelpalooza, I stopped by Smeeks to do some shopping in the name of "research." Couldn't help but notice the kooky food-centric novelties they've started stocking, including the motherlode of bacon-themed tchotches. Calling Heather Bauer of Bacon Unwrapped -- assuming you h ... More >>

The Metric System, Chantilly Cream, and French Fairies on FoodLab 2010 (Part 3 of 7)

Molecular gastronomy (not the after-effect of eating too many black bean, spicy sausage and cheese nachos) is a scientific discipline that studies the physical and chemical processes that occur while cooking. In this seven-part series, we're using our love of food and Carl Sagan to create molecular ... More >>

Einstein's Responds to Our Facebook Promo Concerns

Gee, that was fast. No sooner had we posted our concerns about Einstein's Facebook bagel promo -- wondering just what they were going to do with all that info they're admittedly gathering when we sign up for a free bagel with cream cheese -- than we'd heard back from Corporate HQ.Anne Wilde, Digital ... More >>

Phoenix Police Recruiting Billboards Go for Soft Sell

Maybe this Phoenix police recruitment billboard does wonders for recruitment...      ... but it sure as heck doesn't inspire confidence in the police force.

Obtain a Kiss Kiss with Couscous

Aural Surgery

Brazilian sound artist highlights ASU museum’s new batch

Top 5 Ways to Get Through a Super Bowl Party if You Just Don't Give a Crap

Not as excited as this dude for Sunday? No worries, I'm not, either.If you're anything like me (and I recognize that most Arizonans--nay, most Americans--are not), you don't get football.The overall appeal, the rules, the weird players-slapping-each-other-on-the-ass thing--it's all a bit baffling. B ... More >>

Larry Fitzgerald's Alleged Domestic Abuse Buried Deep in Pages of Arizona Republic

The New Year's Eve news exclusive from sleazy entertainment Web site TMZ.com about Arizona Cardinals player Larry Fitzgerald alleged domestic abuse incident was the "kind of momentary headline that can damage a good name," writes Arizona Republic sports columnist Dan Bickley in a Sunday article ... More >>

MC Chris

The Dork Side

When every song ever recorded fits on your MP3 player, will you listen to any of them?

Urban Campfire burned... ouch...!

Arizona Republic publishes puff piece on Chandler 9/11 Conference

Commons Killer

Conceptual like a Fox

Dream Weaver

Denny Le Nimh, the Yoda of PHX rock DJs, parties with the Kreme posse at Paco Paco for Plus One

Dilated Peoples

Thank you for not Pea-ing

Swearing In

Year of the R-rated comedy

Whacksing Poetic

Dave Gorman Googles it

Unkind Cut

We'd been enjoying emo for years before self-injury stepped into the spotlight

Geeks Gone Wild!

Wardriving hackers take the revenge of the nerds to the street

Scorched Earth

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