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Black Leaders in Phoenix Struggle to Retain Power in a District They've Historically Controlled

Jeff Mangum, Crescent Ballroom, 3/28/13

Jeff Mangum @ Crescent Ballroom|3/28/13Okay, so it's announced that Jeff Mangum is coming to town and he has two shows the same night. That means I have to choose. Which one? Which one! Will he play the same songs twice? If so, the second half is bound to suck, right, because he's gonna be tired and ... More >>

Paint Your Pizza Lets You Paint a Pizza Online and Then Have It Delivered

Paintyourpizza.com is an app that lets you "paint" a pizza on your computer using something that looks an awful lot like Microsoft paint, then pay for that pizza and have it delivered to you in all of its terrible glory. The program gives you the option of painting collaboratively with other users o ... More >>

Deborah Sussman's Care Package

Chow Bella has a valentine for you. For the rest of February, we're handing out Candy Hearts -- stories of food and love from some of our favorite writers. Enjoy. In the 1940s, my father and his parents spent two long years imprisoned in concentration camps in Holland and Germany, where food was f ... More >>

Please, Someone, Buy Eric Schaefer Jack in the Box Tacos for His New Year's Eve Birthday

This holiday season, Chow Bella asked some of our favorite writers to regale us with tales of the holidays -- and food. We're at the tale end this week, with New Year's. Today: Eric Schaefer on the joys horrors of a NYE birthday. See also: - Champagne: Good, Better, Best Options with Kimber Stoneh ... More >>

Lemoncello Cake at Miami Café

Restaurant attached to a nightclub? That's always a gamble. Very little has been written about Miami Café, which is connected to the late-night spot and gay bar Amsterdam, so curiosity (and its convenient downtown location) really drove this dining decision. This is the kind of place that only seem ... More >>

AndyTalk: A Hard Cheese is Good to Find

See Also: - AndyTalk: Autumn Means Apples - AndyTalk: The Trouble with Balsamic Vinegar Ounce for ounce nothing offers flavor as rich and intense as hard cheese. As cheese ages it loses water, concentrating its flavors. While aged cheeses don't melt as well as creamier young cheeses most of them ... More >>

Live Nation Looks to Cash In on EDM Rage with Identity Festival

Phlava on Changes to the Scottsdale Nightlife Scene, Spinning in Strip Clubs, and Why Paris Hilton's DJ Set Was Horrible

If you miss out on Phlava's set tonight at Red Revolver Lounge in Scottsdale, don't fret. The renowned local hip-hop DJ will be cold kickin' it live at both Sevens Lounge in Glendale or Club Miami tomorrow, followed by his regular Sunday night slot at Amsterdam. Plus, he's one of two residents of th ... More >>

The Beach Boys' Al Jardine On The Band's Wild and Wooly Days, 50th Anniversary and New Album

See also: Al Jardine Would Much Rather Be a Beach Boy Than Go It Alone Al Jardine played standup bass on the very first Beach Boys single, "Surfin'," and since then he's been an integral part of the band's sonic makeup, playing guitar and navigating complexities not often associated with The Beach ... More >>

Identity Festival: Live Nation To Bring the EDM Showcase to Ashley Furniture HomeStore Pavilion

It's estimated that around 345,000 EDM fanatics packed the recent Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas a few weekends ago, which was 100,000 more than attended the year prior. It's an impressive figure to be sure, dwarfed only by an even bigger number: The millions of disappointed souls who didn't ... More >>

DJ Tranzit on His Alter Ego, New CD, World Travels, and the Current Oversaturation of EDM

The future 's looking pretty damn bright for Steven Chung, which is probably why he's wearing those Von Zipper shades in the picture above. Over the next 72 hours alone, the 31-year-old house music maestro (who performs as DJ Tranzit) will open for EDM wunderkind DallasK this evening at Wild Knigh ... More >>

Paint it Guggenheim

One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?​For more than 50 years, the walls of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have hosted artwork by Paul Cézanne, Vasily Kandinsky, Franz M ... More >>

One Million Photographs: A Day's Worth of Flickr Uploads by Erik Kessels

One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours?​Dutch photographer Erik Kessels is no stranger to the massive amount of imagery that surfaces on the web -- his latest installation, at Amsterd ... More >>

Rico Solinas' Saw-Blade Paintings Elevate a Folksy Tradition

Dutch Treat

Aaron May, What Are You Listening To?

Aaron May​Aaron MayThe chef owns Over Easy (additional location here), The Lodge, Mabel's on Main, Iruna and Vitamin T, as well as May's Counter in Tucson. When you put your key in the ignition and turn on the radio, what station would play right now? The Grateful Dead channel on Sirius. The cla ... More >>

2011 World's 50 Best Restaurants: Two Tickets to Denmark, Please

Getty Images​Those devilish Danes have done it again. Curse their delicious Nordic cuisine! (Not really. Pass the Greenland musk ox, please.) Restaurant magazine and S. Pellegrino's annual "World's 50 Best Restaurants" list is out and it seems Denmark, the land of Lego AND Hans Christian A ... More >>

Laidback Luke

DJ ill-legal? Talks Dubstep, Subversion, Rusko, Lazer Sword, Hyphy, Hovatron, and More

DJ ill-legal?​Name: Blake Ludera AKA: DJ ill-legal? Genres spun: Glitch, dubstep, breakbeats, and hip-hop mostly. I also like to scratch and get into some turntablism stuff, and on rare occassion I'll play house music or drum 'n' bass. I'm really all over the place when it comes to different ge ... More >>

Gingerbread House Auction: After Hours Gallery

courtesy of After Hours Gallery ​ Now this is a home tour you can sink your teeth into. All over town, artists, architects, pastry chefs, fire departments, and neighborhood schools are busy creating and building -- out of gingerbread. After Hours Gallery and Neighborhood Housing Services ( ... More >>

Cheba Hut: Because Medical Marijuana Goes Down Better with a Toasted Sub

Paul Oakenfold @ Marquee Theatre

Soccer City West

Last chance to hear the vuvuzela concerto

2010 World Cup

2010 World Cup

The Right Watch

Rembrandt reveals what you don't know

Pansexual Healing

Check out the Valley’s newest pulchritudinous playpen

...And Harps For All

Local Label Spotlight: Renaissance Records

Junkie XL

Alice Unchained

Euro-fabulous MC turns the tables at Myst

In Honor of Thanksgiving: The Top Music Turkeys of 2007

Interview with Wiley Arnett of Sacred Reich, Part 2

The Men Behind the Man in Black

A tip of the high-hat

Do Your Taxes Like a Rock Star

This is no substitute for professional financial advice

Going Dutch

And it's a treat

Bait and Switch

The concept's out to lunch

Singer-Songwriters SSSizzle

Eric Holland, Marc Norman, and Gus Brett

ZUCO 103

(Six Degrees)
Whaa!

The Schramms, Tom Heyman, Matt Piucci, and Guru Guru

One Hundred Questions, Boarding House Rules (Innerstate), Hellenes (Inbetweens USA), 2000 Gurus (Funfundvierzig, dist. by Innerspace)

Upbeat

A load of the latest in heritage as Smokin' Joe gets nasty, Bill Frisell goes to Ghost Town, Greg Osby returns to form and everyone else gets the Gumbo once-over

Double Dutch

How two best friends from Holland gave up nursing and became club owners

Toke It or Leave It

Weed lifts lid on Amsterdam pot confab

Toll Road Kill?

Contract for South Mountain tollway may depend on company's dumping of its president

Tokin' Resistance

Proposition 200 -- the Drug Medicalization Act -- is causing high anxiety among politicians and lawmen

BLANK EXPRESSION

VALLEY ART HOSTS SECOND GAY AND LESBIAN FILM FESTIVAL

COUNTRY FROM THE OLD COUNTRYFOR CROONERS FROM THE CONTINENT, THE ROAD TO NASHVILLE RUNS THROUGH ARIZONA

The Sauce Of His Content

Bluesman James Harman barbecues the blues on his latest LP Extra Napkins