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How Much Should a Music Blog Cost? The Curious Case of Blog Collective Ad Hoc

Ad Hoc, a DIY/experimental music blog collective created by editors of Pitchfork's defunct sister site Altered Zones, recently succeeded in raising over $37,000 for the project through a Kickstarter drive and will be going live in the coming weeks. Editors Ric Leichtung and Emilie Friedlander, afte ... More >>

Get Smart About the Food Bill, Read All About it in Food Fight: The Citizen's Guide to the Next Food and Farm Bill

We know the federal farm bill is up for renewal this year. We also know that the farm bill is a mucked-up sludgy mess of a bill that doesn't properly serve the food producers or eaters. Want to know exactly what the whole fuss is over and what's really going on? We have the answer. We recently r ... More >>

Pariah Filmmaker Dee Rees on Coming Out and Growing Up

We know the federal farm bill is up for renewal this year. We also know that the farm bill is a mucked-up sludgy mess of a bill that doesn't properly serve the food producers or eaters. Want to know exactly what the whole fuss is over and what's really going on? We have the answer. We recently r ... More >>

Ke$ha Does Bob Dylan; Plus Three Other Pop Artists You've Probably Misjudged

​Ke$ha is sort of awful, but not for the reasons you think. Yeah, her music is terrible. It's fun music you don't really need to think about. But it's alleged that the songstress is smarter than people give her credit for. It's rumored that she scored a 1500 on her SATs and has a 140 IQ. She even ... More >>

Martha Marcy May Marlene: An Old-School Psychological Thriller as Taut as Its Name Is Twisted

​Ke$ha is sort of awful, but not for the reasons you think. Yeah, her music is terrible. It's fun music you don't really need to think about. But it's alleged that the songstress is smarter than people give her credit for. It's rumored that she scored a 1500 on her SATs and has a 140 IQ. She even ... More >>

Andrew Ross' Bird on Fire Outlines Phoenix's Fundamental Problems and How We May Fix Them

​Ke$ha is sort of awful, but not for the reasons you think. Yeah, her music is terrible. It's fun music you don't really need to think about. But it's alleged that the songstress is smarter than people give her credit for. It's rumored that she scored a 1500 on her SATs and has a 140 IQ. She even ... More >>

Lady Gaga's Apartment Used to Be Covered in Cocaine, Cockroaches

​Lady Gaga has revealed to Neil Strauss that her apartment used to be covered in cocaine and cockroaches, according to NME.American and Kittian author Neil Strauss's upcoming novel, Everyone Loves You When You're Dead: Journeys Into Fame and Madness, has included exclusive Gaga excerpts in his boo ... More >>

What Food Fixes Do Readers Want for Phoenix?

Our readers are cool! Buy this popsicle print from YeeHaw on etsy.com​Last week I ranted that Phoenix needs everything from a Farrell's to bad Chinese food to a grilled cheese shop to some truly original ideas.Some of you were peeved, as expected. But more often, readers got in the spirit and offe ... More >>

Ibogaine Helps Junkies Kick Heroin and Meth. Is It the Trip That Does the Trick?

Our readers are cool! Buy this popsicle print from YeeHaw on etsy.com​Last week I ranted that Phoenix needs everything from a Farrell's to bad Chinese food to a grilled cheese shop to some truly original ideas.Some of you were peeved, as expected. But more often, readers got in the spirit and offe ... More >>

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big

(100) Days of Summer Films

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big

Food Critics: Outmoded or More Relevant Than Ever?

It's not easy being a food spy these days. ​No wonder food critics are feeling introspective. Between publishing's industrywide troubles, the ever-increasing speed (and seemingly decreased value) of online information, the mushrooming presence of food blogs, and the une ... More >>

Arty Girl: Grey Gardens Coloring Books

"They don't weaken, no matter what." from the Grey Gardens Coloring Book, Vol. 1 by David Crotty.​When I discover something I absolutely love, I have this insatiable need to share it with the world. And, long before Drew Barrymore wore a bald cap and Angela Landsbury put on an old lady face, I was ... More >>

Raymond Chandler with Boobs

Neo-noir authors breathe new life into mystery fiction

Urban Pac-Man Comes to Phoenix

Benjamin LeathermanThese peeps have got a serious case of Pac-Man Fever. See more pictures from the game in our slideshow.For us, the streets of downtown Phoenix are an urban death maze of scalding asphalt, never-ending construction, and anger-inducing bonehead drivers that we attempt to maneuver th ... More >>

Filmmaker Brian Pulido Celebrates the Horror of Phoenix in The Graves

Benjamin LeathermanThese peeps have got a serious case of Pac-Man Fever. See more pictures from the game in our slideshow.For us, the streets of downtown Phoenix are an urban death maze of scalding asphalt, never-ending construction, and anger-inducing bonehead drivers that we attempt to maneuver th ... More >>

Hot Links: Marijuana Framed, Canines Cooled, Suspect Shot

The Mesa Unified School District plans to lay off 210 teachers today. The cuts do not include personnel with one-year contracts who may not be hired back anyway. A district spokesperson says the cuts will save the school district "30 to 60 million dolllars"...Rawhide Western Town will get new manage ... More >>

East meets West: Richard Jenkins and Hiam Abbass give liberals a bad name in The Visitor

The Mesa Unified School District plans to lay off 210 teachers today. The cuts do not include personnel with one-year contracts who may not be hired back anyway. A district spokesperson says the cuts will save the school district "30 to 60 million dolllars"...Rawhide Western Town will get new manage ... More >>

Bugaboo Confidential

Life as a young, hot, white, educated nanny in the city sure is a drag

Mane Spotting

Poison guitarist makes hair-metal palatable -- almost

The Popcorn King

Why you should take Brett Ratner seriously

Wanna take a road trip?

Why you should take Brett Ratner seriously

The Devil Went Down to Phoenix

. . . will it be any better than downtown Tempe?

Off the Reservation

If you think the Heard Museum is all about dusty old pots and Indian blankets, you haven't been there lately

Radar Love

Scratching the surface of classical music

The Beat Goes On

Interpol continues to be an enigma

Enemy Lines

Civil liberties vs. Homeland Security at monOrchid

About a Man

In Good Company resonates with universal struggles

Paint Par-tay

Art, poetry, hip-hop and, as always, hot chicks set the roof afire at Wet Paint's Alpha Monster groove.

Gettin' Windy in the City

The Chicago clip crew gleefully gabs on in Barbershop 2

When He Was Cruel

Neil LaBute tries

to be nice but comes off very savage

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped,

Caveman's Valentine

Campbell Scott looks for lust in all the wrong places as Roger Dodger

Fringe Elements

The play's the thing for ASU theatre students

The Prince

At long last, the Godfather's son makes his first film, and it was not easy

Royal Screw-Ups

The Royal Tenenbaums is like its characters: flawed genius

The Unlikely Environmentalists

Mexican officials were quite capable of stopping one of the world's largest corporations on their own

Rock Garden Angel

Fate of garden hangs in the balance

The Mane Course

No blue-plait special for this horse braider

Harden's Crossing

She's finally been invited to the Oscar party, but what will she do after the ball?

The Man of Many Face

Christopher Guest takes his comedy very, very seriously.

Screen Tests

Usual suspects, small wonders, and the new Bertolucci at the Montreal and Toronto film fests

Kvetch 90210

Slums of Beverly Hills down-and-outers fail to sink to the occasion

Chris Sheridan Would Like To Thank The Academy

So would Scottsdale Community College, where Sheridan made his Academy Award-winning student film

Another Story About a Stripper

So would Scottsdale Community College, where Sheridan made his Academy Award-winning student film

UP AND ATOM

So would Scottsdale Community College, where Sheridan made his Academy Award-winning student film

COMING OUT PARTIES

So would Scottsdale Community College, where Sheridan made his Academy Award-winning student film

ABORIGINAL CINEMA

So would Scottsdale Community College, where Sheridan made his Academy Award-winning student film

DOIN' THE RACIST HUSTLE

So would Scottsdale Community College, where Sheridan made his Academy Award-winning student film

The GOP's New Godfather

So would Scottsdale Community College, where Sheridan made his Academy Award-winning student film