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Carla Morrison: "If I'd Have Followed the Rules, I'd Still Not Be Doing Anything"

Carla Morrison's return to the Valley is a bit of a homecoming: She attended high school at Marcos de Niza and took music classes at Mesa Community College before dropping out to perform with friends in Tempe's Babaluca. They built a local following for three years before Carla moved out to Mexico C ... More >>

Big Brain Awards 2013

Rock Steady

Food Day 2012 is Today: Why You Should Care and What's Happening in Metro Phoenix

Hooray for food! Yes, we love food. We talk about it all day every day here on Chow Bella, but what exactly is Food Day? In short, Food Day is about supporting clean, fair food through community-driven events and reenergizing the conversation on the same day, every year. The Center for Science in ... More >>

Erin Forney's Perfect Food Day

Photo courtesy Erin Forney​Erin Forney grew up the daughter of a butcher in Michigan. She's been in Phoenix since 2005 and has been "a food lover since birth." She documents her food adventures on her blog Food Tramp Diaries. While she does have the hereditary love of food and writes about ... More >>

Art For Kickstarters: Loyal Wife

Loyal Wife​When you or I get hit up to finance someone's 12-vinyl disc, pearl handled, hand-carved boxed sets, it will be officially time to pronounce the fan-funding phenomenon dead. Jason Woodbury profiled Kickstarter a few weeks ago, and here we can see it working rather successfully for Lo ... More >>

Runway Pride

Kelly Fair, What Are You Baking?

​ Even if your oven sits cold all year, chances are you're consideringfiring it up, right about now. As a holiday twist on our "What Are YouEating" feature on Chow Bella and "What Are You Wearing?" on JackalopeRanch, for the next few weeks we'll be bringing you "What Are YouBaking?" Complete w ... More >>

Empty Bowls and Fancy Apples in Today's Eater's Digest

http://www.theyummylife.com​Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?Empty Bowls This Wednesday, October 18th, from 11 till 3 p.m. or 5 to 8 p.m. Mesa Community College will be hosting their annual Empty Bowls Charity Event. In remembera ... More >>

From Print: Blogs Teased in Our 8/12 Issue

​This week, New Times ran a list in our print publication highlighting some of the most interesting posts published at Up On The Sun over the past week. Here are links to those posts. What did Trace Adkins have to say about SB 1070 while opening for Toby Keith at Cricket? Is Frankie Muniz's Phoe ... More >>

Mesa Community College Beefs Up Music Biz Program: You Can Now Learn To Be Puff Daddy or Ian MacKaye

​Ever wanted to learn a ton of shit about the music biz without going to Brooklyn to get P. Diddy a cookie or riding in a van with Ian MacKaye as he talks about not eating animals or drinking beer? Mesa Community College has you covered.MCC has been beefing up it's Music Business program for a cou ... More >>

August 4 In Blogs: Salvador Reza, SMoCA, Adam Carolla, Tracy DeWitt, and John McCain

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

July 22 In Blogs: FEZ, Tokio Hotel, Nobuo Fukuda, and J. D. Hayworth

​​​In the 24-hour news cycle, it can be difficult to keep up. We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries:

A Fundraiser at Applebee's? Die Ignorant Got the Last Laugh

Joe Arpaio's Visit to Mesa Community College Will Be Protest Sign-Free

www.citizensrequired.com​If you plan on heading to Mesa Community College tomorrow to protest Sheriff Joe Arpaio, you'll have to leave your "Joe Sucks" sign at home -- the fuzz isn't allowing signs on the campus while the sheriff speaks with a group of college Republicans.Kevin Fosburgh, president ... More >>

Sheriff Joe Arpaio Plans to Speak at Mesa Community College, Despite Threat of Protest; Maybe He'll Bring Silly Hat Again

Here's a glimpse of the last time Arpaio spoke at a Valley college. The charade ended with a few verses of Bohemian Rhapsody and the sheriff leaving in a huff.​If anyone feels like protesting, we've got the venue for you.Despite getting heckled at a speaking engagement at ASU a few months ag ... More >>

Movies Del Mundo

Famous international film director comes to town

Community Collage

Photoshop for the common good at @Central

Joe Arpaio's Boy Adam Stoddard: Is He in the Lower Buckeye Jail?

HeatCity.orgContempt of Court: D.O. Stoddard, in the mugshot published by Heat CityThere's beaucoup speculation out there about the location of MCSO detention officer Adam Stoddard, the poor, poor deputy (sniff) who's been jailed for contempt of court by Judge Gary Donahoe following Stoddard's refus ... More >>

Super Hiro

Free fest showcases works of acclaimed Japanese auteur

Con Artists

Students get digital in Mesa

The not-so great Gadsby: Looney-tunes MCC instructor Blair Gadsby hunger strikes John McCain over 9/11.

They Got Rhythm

Down-by-law locals school the fans in Tempe

Recent releases from local acts

Now that's what we call music!

Street Smarts

Balling for fun

Koko Puffs

Alwun House drags out the she-males

Great Scots

Get some dirt up your kilt at the Highland Games

Crisis Watch

Teatro Bravo returns to the Verge

Shagging Rights

MCC gets it on in Noises Off

Blow My Mine

Could Arizona's 80,000 working and abandoned mines be the root of all evil?

Visual Aid

Herberger boosts downtown arts scene

The Art of the Book

A unique gathering is part cookie exchange, part book club

Hail to the Brief

Skimpies tackles a delicates subject

Fourth Dimension

Freedom rings throughout the Valley

Seuss on the Loose

One act two acts fun acts new acts

Boom Towns

Valley celebrations re-create rockets' red glare

Party All the Time

Fabricio Rodriguez, student body vice president at Mesa Community College, refused to pledge an oath that he wasn't a Communist -- because he is.

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Speared

Jamie Warren claims his football coach at Scottsdale Community College ran a drill in which he was speared in the back during practice. The ugly incident has unleashed a flood of allegations in Artichoke land.

Plenty of Horns

Patriotic concerts in observerance of Independence Day

Night & Day

July 16 - 22, 1998

The Return of the Native

The Angel of Area 5

When retiree Bev Tittle-Baker's neighbors convinced her to help them make the crime-infested area safer for children, they unleashed an irrepressible force for change

Charity at Home

Local benefit show focuses attention on imaginative east Mesa after-school program

One Man, One Name, Five Pianos

Ariel fuses the works of Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Coolio to a Liberace aesthetic in "The Power of Five"

Flashes

DRECK THE HALLS