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May 24, 2012
Five Sound Strike Bands We'd Like to See Perform in Arizona
Last week, punk band Rise Against ended their boycott of Arizona by announcing two high-profile shows. That isn't to say that The Sound Strike , the boycott organized by rockers like Zack de la Rocha to impact the state in the wake of SB 1070 is over, but it's shifting it's focus away from boycottin ... More >>
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May 11, 2012
Grant Goodman, Phoenix Attorney In Probate Court Mess, Suspended From Practice
Some would say that Grant Goodman caught a break yesterday when a disciplinary hearing panel suspended him from the practice of law for only two years after finding that the Phoenix attorney violated several Rules of Professional Conduct--exploiting "vulnerable individuals" and lying to the cou ... More >>
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April 26, 2012
Open Mike Eagle on Indie Rap's Breakthrough Year
So there's punk-rap, nerd-rap, avant-rap, and...oh, only about a gazillion other hyphenated hip-hop subgenres. Open Mike Eagle describes his style as "art rap." At least for now. "I'm unable to replace it," he laughs, speaking with me via phone from his home in Los Angeles. "And it's not even that ... More >>
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April 22, 2012
Bon Iver - Coachella 2012 - 4/21/12
Bon Iver Coachella April 21, 2012 See also: *Our Complete Coachella Coverage Better than...trying to dance off your sunburn. Flickering strands of glowing balloons swayed gently over the polo fields as the crowd drew in for Bon Iver's set on the main stage yesterday evening. Sunburnt and spent, ... More >>
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April 21, 2012
Coachella 2012 4/20: Let's Talk About Weed
See also: *The Best of Coachella: Friday, April 20 *Our Complete Coachella Coverage Yesterday was 4/20. It was also Coachella. And so, the percentage of festival-goers who were stoned rose from a paltry 75 percent to a full 98 percent. (These estimates come courtesy of LA Weekly music editor, Ben ... More >>
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April 16, 2012
Coachella: 5 Signs You're An Aging Hipster
See also: Coachella: Radiohead's Weekend 1 Set Has No Alarms and No Surprises See also: The Best of Coachella Sunday, April 15, 2012 By Lilledeshan Bose Aging hipsters--the very same people Coachella targeted when it began holding the music fest in Indio--are usually easy to spot on the Empire Pol ... More >>
Film
April 12, 2012
This Is Not a Film: Jafar Panahi Is a Filmmaker Who Isn't
See also: Coachella: Radiohead's Weekend 1 Set Has No Alarms and No Surprises See also: The Best of Coachella Sunday, April 15, 2012 By Lilledeshan Bose Aging hipsters--the very same people Coachella targeted when it began holding the music fest in Indio--are usually easy to spot on the Empire Pol ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
Is "Kony 2012" Activist/Alleged Public Masturbator Jason Russell Getting Better Treatment Than Phoenix Dentist's Office Flasher?
As you may know, one of the men behind the "Kony 2012" viral video, Jason Russell, was nabbed in San Diego last week for allegedly masturbating in public and generally acting like a weirdo, which he isn't being charged for.On the other hand, here in Phoenix, 40-year-old Daniel Delaney allegedly show ... More >>
Blogs
March 19, 2012
The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012
The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>
Blogs
February 27, 2012
Record Heat: Avant-Garde by Brad Dwyer
Yesterday, while cleaning my apartment (too rare an occurrence, lemme tell you) I listened to a recent broadcast of Henry Rollins' excellent radio show on KCRW. Rollins is a man of many talents: In addition to his excellent program, he writes for our sister paper, LA Weekly, and he tours the worl ... More >>
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February 1, 2012
Grant Goodman, Disgraced Local Attorney, Shot Down By Appellate Court
Grant Goodman, a Phoenix (now suspended) attorney who had his 15 minutes of fame a few years ago as an alleged champion of local folks being abused by their legal guardians/conservators and by the Maricopa County Probate Court, has lost yet another case--his own. In a memoran ... More >>
Blogs
January 31, 2012
Blood, Bones and Butter Author Gabrielle Hamilton Chats with Chow Bella Book Club
We got a chance this weekend to chat by phone with chef and author Blood, Bones and Butter. She'd just touched down in Louisville, Kentucky, in the middle of both the country and her book tour for the recently released paperback version of the book. This Thursday she'll be in Tempe at Changing Han ... More >>
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January 17, 2012
Rick Renzi Criminal Case Edges Forward As Supremes Decide Not To Step In
Time was, when Rick Renzi was an up-and-comer in Arizona's (even national) Republican circles, a staunch conservative from Flagstaff who first won election to Congress in 2002.Corruption case in the classic Arizona styleThese days, however, Renzi is just another schlub facing a big-time criminal ... More >>
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December 26, 2011
NOFX's Fat Mike on Cokie the Clown, Drinking, and Occupy Wall Street
NOFX has been a mainstay of punk rock for almost 30 years. The band has gained notoriety for its antics and activism, recently getting banned from Emo's in Austin because frontman "Fat Mike" Burkett tricked the audience into believing he served free tequila shots mixed with his own urine. ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
More Nonsense From Thomas: Claims TV Reporter Revealed News of Lawyer's County Clients, but Judge had Ruled on Issue Months Prior
TV reporter Josh Bernstein is one of former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas' heroes. New setting, same old story.Under oath while on the stand this morning in the his disciplinary "trial," former Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas claimed that a TV reporter gave his office a great ... More >>
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October 27, 2011
Henry Rollins on Occupants, the Occupy Movement, and the Radio
There aren't a lot of middle-of-the-roaders when it comes to Henry Rollins. You love him or you hate him, and he gives you plenty of chances to do either: He hosts a radio show on KCRW (doing remarkable things like following up a Curtis Mayfield cut with a jam by Japanese drone-rockers Boris ... More >>
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October 25, 2011
Andy Thomas' Hit Lady Lisa Aubuchon Testifying At Disciplinary Hearing
An unrepentant Lisa Aubuchon is testifying at the moment before a hearing panel that is considering serious disciplinary action against her, her ex-boss County Attorney Andrew Thomas and another attorney.LAndy Thomas: His testimony is forthcoming.Aubuchon has been trying to explain the litany of ... More >>
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August 12, 2011
Honeywell Contract is Target of Anti-Arizona Immigration Activists in Los Angeles
After Arizona lawmakers passed SB1070, calls for action by immigration activists were heard loudly in California.San Francisco and Los Angeles announced boycotts against the state -- but reality quickly set in when city leaders realized such plans might come back to hurt them. As L.A. Weekly ... More >>
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July 18, 2011
Lollapalooza: "It Was 20 Years Ago Today..."
It's kind of hard to imagine that Lallapalooza is 20 years-old. I wasn't in attendance in 1991, but the event still feels like a cultural touchstone for me (due in no small part to the "Homerpalooza" episode of The Simpsons, which introduced me to Sonic Youth, and cemented my growing love for The ... More >>
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May 5, 2011
Doctors Rally Against Medical Migra
Gregory PrattCristina Gonzalez, MD emcee, at doctors' demonstration against immigration legislation.A group of doctors in town for their annual meeting held a press conference in front of the Arizona statehouse today to declare their opposition to anti-immigration legislation, particularly pr ... More >>
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May 3, 2011
Listen to Smashing Pumpkins' "Owata"
Billy CorganWe at Up on the Sun woke up this morning thinking it would be absolutely smashing if, say, a brand new track from Smashing Pumpkins was waiting in our inboxes. As it turns out, dreams really do come true. "Owata" from Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, the Pumpkins' 44-track opus bein ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
Chile con Queso?! Arizona Makes the State by State Food Map
courtesy Lucy StephensDespite the horror of seeing our poor state identified with a Velveeta-y treat (I'm sure you can make chile con queso other ways, but I've never seen it) I had to share this lovely graphic and interview from our sister blog, LA Weekly's Squid Ink. Check ... More >>
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April 15, 2011
Comatose Border Patrol Victim Spared Deportation, Removal from St. Joseph's (For Now)
UnivisionJose Gutierrez, who is in a vegetative state, with part of his skull removedSaint Joseph is traditionally the patron saint of workers and immigrants. The latter is because the father of Jesus was forced to flee to Egypt to save the Christ child from Herod the Great's wrath. Once King Herod ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Must-Read Best Coast Feature from LA Weekly
LA WeeklyLast week Phoenix New Times ran a big ol' story on Best Coast in our print edition. We were topped by our sister paper in LA that same day, however.Gustavo Turner, the Weekly's music editor, had a 6,000-word cover story on the band's main lady Bethany Cosentino which might just go down a ... More >>
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October 27, 2010
The 88: The 88
Artist: The 88Title: The 88 Release date: September 28 Label: Rocket ScienceWhat do you do if you're a band like The 88? You're top-flight songwriters and musicians, you get your songs placed in all kinds of big-name TV shows and high-profile TV commercials, you tour the country opening ... More >>
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August 13, 2010
Ever Wonder What Happened to Norman Fierros?
A. ScattergoodStill miss Norman Fierros' dessert chimichanga, the tiny Hershey bar fried to perfection, served at Norman's Arizona, his last local gig in what is now the heart of the La Grande Orange empire? Then you are a true Phoenician. And you probably r ... More >>
Blogs
July 22, 2010
Five More Food Fixes for Phoenix
laweekly.comTypically, the fur really flies over on our brother blog, Up on the Sun, while things stay pretty staid around here at Chow Bella. But our esteemed food critic, Michele Laudig (who also happens to be our former music editor), keeps telling me that Phoenix is way ... More >>
Blogs
July 21, 2010
Five Food Fixes Phoenix Desperately Needs
For the most part, I try hard to heart Phoenix. Really. This city and I have a long history together, long enough that I remember the days when Bill Johnson's Big Apple was considered a night out on the town. uglyblackjohn.blogspot.comI even remember when we had a Sambo's. I apprecia ... More >>
Blogs
June 18, 2010
World Cup Theme by Shakira Plagiarized?
While Americans don't take to football ("soccer" in our land) the way the rest of the world does, there's something special about the World Cup. Something so special, that even musicians can't help put take part in all the excitement. While R. Kelly wrote an official theme for the global quadrennial ... More >>
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June 4, 2010
William S. Burroughs Documentary to Be Released by a Beastie Boy
We all know that people are multi-dimensional, and cannot be defined by one singular act or piece of art that they produce. Having said this, it's hard to imagine that the same guy who sings "Hey Ladies" would be interested in a documentary on William S. Burroughs. Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boy better ... More >>
Blogs
May 7, 2010
Lady Gaga's Telephone as Spoofed by NPR Staffers
Even if you're not a regular listener of NPR's afternoon program All Things Considered, you may want to have a look at this. Found by Fishbowl LA and reprinted by our sister paper, the LA Weekly's music blog West Coast Sound, it seems that some young people on NPR's staff convinced some of the, um ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2010
Top Ten Musicians Who Cannot Tour Arizona Without Proving They're "Legal," From West Coast Sound
Should Lady Gaga carry her birth certificate when she swings through town this summer?It's a rough time to be an Arizonan. The only thing tougher is being a brown Arizonan. Our moronic, racist legislation, (our sister paper LA Weekly uses a much better, more accurate string of adjective ... More >>
Blogs
April 20, 2010
More Coachella Madness in Photos
Just when you thought it was safe, we have three more Coachella 2010 slides shows courtesy of LA Weekly for you to take a gander at. Long live the 'Chella. Top 25 Coachella Tattoos The 40 Most Memorable People at Coachella Coachella: Hippies or Hipsters?
Blogs
April 19, 2010
Cardinal Roger Mahony Compares SB 1070 to "German Nazi and Russian Communist Techniques"
from Mahony's blog Cardinal Roger Mahony: Think he could perform an exorcism on Russell Pearce? Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles denounced state Senator Russell Pearce's anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070 on his blog Sunday, likening the bill to the police state tactics ... More >>
News
August 6, 2009
Smooth Criminal: Urban Artist DOSE Takes Graffiti from the Street to the Museum and Beyond
from Mahony's blog Cardinal Roger Mahony: Think he could perform an exorcism on Russell Pearce? Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles denounced state Senator Russell Pearce's anti-immigrant legislation SB 1070 on his blog Sunday, likening the bill to the police state tactics ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2009
Follow Michael Jackson Memorial Online
KCRW, the Santa Monica, California-based public broadcast channel most famous for "Morning Becomes Eclectic" will be broadcasting from Michael Jackson's memorial service at the Staples Center today beginning at 10 a.m. Listen here.Also check out the music blog at our sister paper, LA Weekly, where a ... More >>
Blogs
May 12, 2009
Geek Beat: Celebrity Geeks and Gaming Freaks at RandomCon
See... hot blondes can be geeks too.I grew up in the Dark Ages of role-playing games. I'm talking the late '80s, when Christian groups were protesting Dungeons & Dragons as a satanic tool and mixed-up drug addict and heavy D&D player Chris Pritchard -- now out on p ... More >>
Blogs
April 18, 2009
Coffee with a Neo-Nazi, Cancelled: Phoenix's National Socialist Movement Punks Out
Ol' Adolf would be disgusted at these half-assed NSM, Nazi-wannabes Big, bad, neo-Nazis? Um, not exactly. See, the local defenders of the white race -- at least the Arizona adherents of the National Socialist Movement, led by pseudo-fuehrer Jeff Schoep nationally -- are girly me ... More >>
News
January 22, 2009
The Wily Warbler Visits Ciria Lopez-Pacheco and Courtney Bisbee Behind Bars
Ol' Adolf would be disgusted at these half-assed NSM, Nazi-wannabes Big, bad, neo-Nazis? Um, not exactly. See, the local defenders of the white race -- at least the Arizona adherents of the National Socialist Movement, led by pseudo-fuehrer Jeff Schoep nationally -- are girly me ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2009
Madlib, Blatz, Deerhunter, and Crystal Stilts are Part of What's Selling at East Side Records in Tempe
Otis Jackson Jr. (a.k.a. Madlib) wins the award for the coolest bedroom ever.With apologies to Russell Simmons, Madlib's arguably the hardest working cat in hip-hop.Besides creating his own jams and flows under a few different noms de guerre (Quasimoto, Sound Directions, Yesterday's New Quintet), t ... More >>
Blogs
December 30, 2008
Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers
By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>
Blogs
December 2, 2008
The Pretenders Coming To The Dodge
"The British Rock band The Pretenders with original founder Chrissie Hynde will make a stop in Phoenix to perform at Dodge Theatre on Wednesday, March 4. The tour is the band's first extensive headlining tour since 2003. The show will begin at 7:30pm. Tickets will go on-sale Monday, December 8 at 10 ... More >>
News
July 10, 2008
Mesa Police Chief George Gascón stares down Sheriff Joe Arpaio
"The British Rock band The Pretenders with original founder Chrissie Hynde will make a stop in Phoenix to perform at Dodge Theatre on Wednesday, March 4. The tour is the band's first extensive headlining tour since 2003. The show will begin at 7:30pm. Tickets will go on-sale Monday, December 8 at 10 ... More >>
Music
June 26, 2008
Warner Bros. veteran Bill Bentley launches a music site for baby boomers with SonicBoomers.com
"The British Rock band The Pretenders with original founder Chrissie Hynde will make a stop in Phoenix to perform at Dodge Theatre on Wednesday, March 4. The tour is the band's first extensive headlining tour since 2003. The show will begin at 7:30pm. Tickets will go on-sale Monday, December 8 at 10 ... More >>
News
August 30, 2007
Smell Test
The querulous quail decries the deportation of an 18-year-old Hispanic student and sings the praises of good graffiti
Blogs
November 23, 2006
Thanksgiving Sux
The querulous quail decries the deportation of an 18-year-old Hispanic student and sings the praises of good graffiti
Film
October 13, 2005
Keira Get Your Gun
The life of a model turned bounty hunter
News
February 6, 2003
Make That a Double!
Starting a paper's not for the faint of heart. Duh!bya's Justice Department kooks made ending one even more harrowing.
Music
October 21, 1999
War in Peace
Skip Spence made one brilliant album, then spent the next 30 years dying in obscurity. Now, a new tribute album is giving him life again.

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