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Now Available in Arizona: Upright Seven

Beer: Seven Brewery: Upright Brewing Co. Style: Saison ABV: 8 percent Not sure if you guys have noticed, but craft beer is going all Manifest Destiny right now. With the likes of New Belgium, Oskar Blues, and Green Flash breaking ground on East Coast facilities, big brands are going nationwide. Ev ... More >>

Chew on That

Weird is the New Cool and Fayuca Open New Year with Tour, Share Video from the Road

High-energy hip-hoppers Weird is the New Cool and Latin-reggae-punk rockers Fayuca wasted no time in hitting the road to begin their 2013 campaign. Mere days after the new year dawned, the two local acts launched their Spark the Flame Tour on Thursday, January 3, and paid a little visit to our Nor ... More >>

Street Eats Food Truck Festival Is Set for January 12 and 13 at Salt River Fields

If you love local food trucks, Food Network, or Man v. Food on the Travel Channel, here's an event for you.

Zach Fowle's Got Some Advice for Those of You About to Roast Chestnuts on an Open Fire

Ah, the holidays. Christmas is all about love, sharing, sweetness and light -- and keeping the antacids handy. In keeping with the spirit of the season, Chow Bella presents "Eating Christmas," in which some of our favorite writers nosh on the real lessons we learn this time of year. Today, Zach's nu ... More >>

Wade Ridley, Match.Com "Hunter" Who Killed Phoenix Woman, Apparently Commits Suicide In Nevada Joint

We did some blog items last year on Wade Ridley, who confessed to the February 2011 north Phoenix machete/butcher knife murder of his girlfriend, Anne Simenson.Ridley was charged with first-degree murder in Maricopa County Superior Court, but the local case still was awaiting disposition as he sat i ... More >>

Solar Firm Matinee Energy is Full of Hot Air

Employee-Owned WinCo Set to Shake Up the Valley's Supermarket Scene

On the heels of the news that Sprouts Farmers Market will merge with competitor Sunflower Farmers Market, a new grocery store is preparing to further shake up the Valley's competitive supermarket scene. WinCo, the employee-owned, no-frills discount supermarket based in Boise, Idaho, has announced i ... More >>

Matinee Energy Distances Itself From Shady Founder, but Questions Remain in Plans to Build Several Large Solar-Power Plants in Arizona

Matinee Energy, a company with plans to build several large solar-power plants in Arizona, says a founder who once ran a bogus gold-mining scheme no longer has a role in the firm. Yet many questions remain about the mystery company, which reportedly has contracts with Hyundai Heavy and KEPCO KDN, t ... More >>

Jon Kyl's Attack on Online Poker and Livelihoods

Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, October 20th, 2011

Super Stereo on 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' This Sunday

Never, ever watch this show...except for this Sunday​Keeping Up with the Kardashians may be one of the most vapid, superficial, painfully annoying shows on television right now, but this Sunday night's new episode on E! actually has one redeeming quality to the vomit-inducing drivel -- local "futu ... More >>

Now Open: Brugos Pizza Co.

​Northern Nevada's award-winning pizza has made its way to The Valley of the Sun just in time for summer. The family owned and operated Brugos Pizza Co. recently opened its first Arizona location in the upscale digs of the Esplanade business and retail complex. Christina and Troy McDonald open ... More >>

Sound Struck Benefit Show April 31: Taboo's Solo Debut, Chris Rock Beatboxing, Michael Moore Covers Kenny Rogers

Shawn Anderson This week's Flier Of The Week is for a Sound Struck benefit show in Nevada. The Sound Struck strikes again. The group is leading a boycott of Arizona and features a handful of passionate musicians along with a bunch of people who have nothing to do with mus ... More >>

Drought Might Go Medieval on Southwest, Researchers Say; 60-Year Dry Period Possible

  "I'm-a get medieval on your ass." -- Marcellus Wallace, spokesman for Mother Nature?​A 60-year drought, the likes of which hasn't been seen since medieval times, may be in store for the Southwest this century, University of Arizona researchers report. A summary of scientific f ... More >>

Toni Braxton Up to Her Eyes in Unbelievable Debt

​R&B singer Toni Braxton has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy again, according to TMZ. She owes between $10 million and $50 million.The companies to which she is indebted include Tiffany & Co., AT&T, The Four Seasons Hotels, and Neiman Marcus. Maybe diamonds aren't a girl's best friend a ... More >>

AFL-CIO Won't Help Arizona's Democratic Congressional Races; Money and Ads Going to Other States

  ​You've probably heard the predictions by now: Democrats are going to be scarcer in Congress this November. The number of potential seats lost could be high, but there's only so much money to go around to help them campaign. The AFL-CIO, typically a stalwart money source for Democrats, ... More >>

SMoCA's "Re-imagining the West" Features Cowboys, Crosses, and Mushroom Clouds

Against Me! Announces Tracklist, Release Date for White Crosses... Wait A Minute, Didn't I Already Hear That Record?

​I was excited to see an e-mail about the new Against Me! record, due June 8 on Sire. As the band's publicist says, the record from one of the best live bands I've seen in the past year was produced by Butch Vig (Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, etc., etc.) so it should be pretty awesome.Then I remembe ... More >>

J.D. Hayworth Heads to Vegas for Easter Weekend Happy Hour

​Senate hopeful J.D. Hayworth, the "consistent conservative," who touts his devout Christianity in television and radio ads, is heading to Las Vegas this weekend for happy hour with fellow conservatives at a bar called Stoney's on the Strip.Where else would a good Christian spend his Easter weeken ... More >>

Cheese on Bread

Hot Links: Floods, Runaway Stagecoaches, and Boiling Lobsters

​A water-main broke on Sunday and flooded several central Phoenix businesses and homes with thousands of gallons of water. The owner of one of the damaged buildings, Phoenix Rising Now photography studio, says the water filled his basement from floor to ceiling. Crews were working on repairing the ... More >>

Arizona Universities Given Nearly $1 Million in Federal Stimulus Money to Study "Division of Labor in Ant Colonies," and John McCain Ain't Happy

www.alwayzfun.blogspot​Republican senators submitted a report to Congress yesterday outlining billions of dollars of useless or stupid spending in the Obama stimulus plan.What do we mean by useless or stupid? How about $100,000 for a puppet show in Minnesota or a $2 million replica rail ... More >>

The Crush

Alien Resurrection

New flick transforms Phoenix Lights incident into theological romp

Arty Girl: City of Phoenix Public Arts Wants You

By Ollie Crafoord at flickr Creative CommonsDon't listen to the girl in the purple dress...There are a lot of bored people out there right now. I'm talking about the unemployed, of course (although audiences of the new Terminator movie might fit the category as well - just my opinion).Without work, ... More >>

Courtney Bisbee's Parents Fight to Visit Their Granddaughter

Camille and Tom Tilley, seeking the right to visit their grandchild Taylor Lee.Judge Michael Gordon's cupboard-sized Phoenix courtroom was packed Wednesday afternoon with supporters of both Courtney Bisbee and Bisbee's parents Camille and Tom Tilley. Family court seldom gets th ... More >>

Bottoms Up: The Jimi Hendrix Liquid Experience Inspires InSIPid Humor

Underground All-ages Music Venue The Chamber Closing Next Week

Love Thy Conference Neighbor

Two words for the Big 12 and SEC: weak sauce

Doctor Faces Potential Suspension After New Times Investigation

Wong Kar Wai's My Blueberry Nights doesn't measure up

Arizona's homeopathic board is the second chance for doctors who may not deserve one

James Beard Foundation award nominees in AZ

Indie Kids

See You on the Moon! appeals to grown-ups as much as children

The Thing That Won't Leave

The feds have busted a gut trying to deport Emmanuel Agyeman. Even seven tumultuous years in an Arizona prison couldn't budge him

Chimp on His Shoulder

An exotic-animal broker says Arizona's 'monkey rules' are forcing him out

Trouble in the Sac

Nevada's wastewater is causing sex problems in fish. But will Arizona get screwed by the solution?

The Bench Warmer and the Straggler

Gubernatorial candidates have been playing the usual political game. One of them lost a long time ago.

Johnson's Waterloo?

Democrat makes a good point, but overplays his hand in questioning Hull's Nevada ties

Night & Day

August 13 - 19, 1998

Burn the Man!

Playing with fire at the 1997 Burning Man festival

Freaks in the Desert

Strange days and fiery nights at the 1996 Burning Man Festival

That Darn Cathouse!

Mesa sexagenarian blows $25,000 windfall in Nevada whorehouse spree

WARNING CIGNA

NEGLIGENCE BY ARIZONA'S BIGGEST HEALTH INSURANCE COMPANY NEARLY KILLED JIM SELL'S WIFE. THEN CIGNA AND A MAJOR HOSPITAL WENT AFTER THEIR POCKETBOOK.

INTERSTATE HIGH JINKS

LAND BATTLE PITS REP. JON KYL (R-DEL WEBB CORP.) AGAINST REP. JIM BILBRAY (D-SUMMA CORP.)

DAM EXPENSIVE

THE NEW VISITORS CENTER AT HOOVER DAM WILL COST $119 MILLION

RATS! SNITCHING FOR TH SLEAZIEST COPS IN THE STATE ISN'T GOING TO LOOK GOOD ON YOUR RESUME!

NIGHT OF THE GRISLY

STUFFED INSIDE THE NEWLYWEDS' BED IN VEGAS WAS...A LOT OF ROT

FATE AND LOATHING IN BULLHEAD CITYLIFE'S EVEN MORE OF A CRAPSHOOT WHEN YOU'RE ACROSS THE RIVER FROM A CASINO