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Nigeria

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2012

    The Best of Coachella: Sunday, April 15

    See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sund ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 12, 2012

    Fu-Fu Cuisine: Where Africa Meets the Caribbean

    See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Saturday, April 14 *Top Ten Awkward Coachella Dance Move GIFs Wow, that was fast! In a whirlwind of top-notch performances from legends and buzz bands alike, pool parties, and rain, Coachella's first weekend is over. Here are our scribes' favorite moments from Sund ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2012

    Fu-Fu Cuisine Is a Journey to Africa and the Caribbean

    To eat at Fu-Fu Cuisine on Phoenix's west side, is a journey far from the sprawling Arizona desert. The new restaurant owned by Esther Mbaikambey, who was born in Nigeria and spent her high school years in Jamaica, offers a culinary journey to Africa and Caribbean.

  • News

    April 5, 2012

    Big Brain Awards 2012: Meet This Year's Finalists

    To eat at Fu-Fu Cuisine on Phoenix's west side, is a journey far from the sprawling Arizona desert. The new restaurant owned by Esther Mbaikambey, who was born in Nigeria and spent her high school years in Jamaica, offers a culinary journey to Africa and Caribbean.

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Big Brain Finalist 2012: Esther Mbaikambey

    You submitted nominations for awards given to the Valley's emerging creatives and the results are in. Introducing our Big Brain 2012 Finalists. Leading up to the Big Brain Award awards announcement and celebration on April 7, Chow Bella and Jackalope Ranch will introduc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2011

    Fu-Fu Cuisine Is Fun to Say and Eat, and Focuses on African and Caribbean Cuisine (Okay, There's Spaghetti and Meatballs, Too)

    Get this: yassa chicken​When a new spot opens in town, we can't wait to check it out -- and let you know our initial impressions. Share a few photos, some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that have just opened, samp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 8, 2011

    Seven Psychedelic Tunes to Get Psyched for Dead Meadow

    Dead Meadow​Dead Meadow's coming through town tonight with Drainbow and Strangers Family Band, so expect the Rhythm Room to get a little frizzle-fried by the band's psychedelicized rockers. Three Kings, the band's most recent release, drags listeners through a bluesy, backwards-glancing psych- ... More >>

  • News

    August 18, 2011

    Sheriff Joe Arpaio and His Fiesta Bowl Freebie

    Dead Meadow​Dead Meadow's coming through town tonight with Drainbow and Strangers Family Band, so expect the Rhythm Room to get a little frizzle-fried by the band's psychedelicized rockers. Three Kings, the band's most recent release, drags listeners through a bluesy, backwards-glancing psych- ... More >>

  • News

    June 23, 2011

    Immigrants Who Fight Deportation Are Packed Into Federal Gulags for Months or Years Before Their Cases Are Heard

    Dead Meadow​Dead Meadow's coming through town tonight with Drainbow and Strangers Family Band, so expect the Rhythm Room to get a little frizzle-fried by the band's psychedelicized rockers. Three Kings, the band's most recent release, drags listeners through a bluesy, backwards-glancing psych- ... More >>

  • News

    April 21, 2011

    Ask a Mexican on Staying Stuck on the Bottom Rungs

    Dead Meadow​Dead Meadow's coming through town tonight with Drainbow and Strangers Family Band, so expect the Rhythm Room to get a little frizzle-fried by the band's psychedelicized rockers. Three Kings, the band's most recent release, drags listeners through a bluesy, backwards-glancing psych- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2011

    Davila 666 Last Night at The Yucca Tap Room

    ​Davila 666Yucca Tap RoomTuesday, March 22One of the great things about rock & roll is its lack of language barrier. I don't need to speak Nigerian to know that the Nigeria 70 comps rule -- don't need to learn Japanese in order to turn Boris up too loud -- or understand German to zone out to A ... More >>

  • Film

    February 3, 2011

    Sundance: Cults and Uncertain Futures Dominate the Festival

    ​Davila 666Yucca Tap RoomTuesday, March 22One of the great things about rock & roll is its lack of language barrier. I don't need to speak Nigerian to know that the Nigeria 70 comps rule -- don't need to learn Japanese in order to turn Boris up too loud -- or understand German to zone out to A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2010

    Assassination Threat Sent to Phoenix New Times Writer Turns Out to Be Scam

    Wikimedia Commons There's not a hitman in the bush, after all.​ Turns out that someone didn't pay a hitman to kill us -- after all. This morning, we received an e-mail at work titled, "Do or Die, Urgent Reply" from one "Hitman Sapp." Sapp wrote that he'd been following us for some time, and ... More >>

  • News

    July 22, 2010

    An SB 1070 Prediction: The Feds Will Come to the Rescue

    Wikimedia Commons There's not a hitman in the bush, after all.​ Turns out that someone didn't pay a hitman to kill us -- after all. This morning, we received an e-mail at work titled, "Do or Die, Urgent Reply" from one "Hitman Sapp." Sapp wrote that he'd been following us for some time, and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 10, 2010

    Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo

    Wikimedia Commons There's not a hitman in the bush, after all.​ Turns out that someone didn't pay a hitman to kill us -- after all. This morning, we received an e-mail at work titled, "Do or Die, Urgent Reply" from one "Hitman Sapp." Sapp wrote that he'd been following us for some time, and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2010

    Nigerian-Like Scam Hits Our Inbox--We Run for Cover!

    Just about everyone we know who routinely plays around on the Net -- which is just about everyone -- has gotten a Nigerian scam letter.   ​You gotta know the deal: Someone has $30 million awaiting them in a Swiss bank, or something, but only if you fork over $3,000 or so to the cause. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2010

    Arizona Republic Disqualifies Best Local Band Candidates Without Comment, Crowns Jimmy Eat World

    ​The Arizona Republic's website, AZCentral.com runs an annual "Reader's Choice" contest which everyone should know by now is a huge farce.Editors have, for example, allowed the nomination of two canceled music festivals in the "Best Music Festival" category. So, yeah, it's a joke and everyone shou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2010

    Huun-Huur-Tu and Carmen Rizzo Bring An Ecclectic and Avant-Garde Mix To Scottsdale

    ​If you thought the newly opened Musical Instrument Museum was diverse in its selection of exotic instruments from around the world (where Nigerian hausa trumpets and a Burmese saung guak harp are housed in the same building as Eric Clapton's stratocasters), try checking out the multifaceted l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2009

    Joe Arpaio on Nightline: Mexicans Bring Disease Into the U.S. (Ahem, Not), and Probably Built His House

    Tonight on ABC's Nightline: Joe spouts more bigoted blather Nightline's piece on our corrupt top constable runs tonight -- you know, the one ABC was working on when they sent Nightline talking head Martin Bashir to Phoenix to cover one of Arpaio's anti-immigrant sweeps last ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2009

    Big Brothers

    Mixed-race ensemble play authentic afro-pop

  • Calendar

    April 30, 2009

    Flesh Trade

    Tired of Inc.? Try Ink.

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2009

    The Check Is in the E-mail

    Hilarious true tale lifts C-list actor out of obscurity

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2008

    Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

    By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 25, 2007

    A Hard Day's Day

    By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

  • News

    August 17, 2006

    The Frisby Legacy

    God told Neal Frisby to build the Capstone Cathedral. Then He told him to give it away

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Off the Reservation

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

  • Film

    April 13, 2006

    Diary of a Fat Black Woman

    Mo'Nique gets her groove on

  • Calendar

    June 30, 2005

    Reigning Cats and Dawgs

    A stylus assault at Old Brickhouse

  • News

    March 10, 2005

    Destiny's Child

    Ike Diogu's the Pac-10's player of the year. Will he stay at ASU or go to the NBA for millions?

  • Calendar

    July 22, 2004

    Thrilling Me

    Not-so-softly with their songs

  • News

    March 11, 2004

    Speed Queens

    Peoria teen sisters are racing toward success on the track and off

  • News

    October 30, 2003

    Ice Creamed

    Paradise Valley police picked the wrong black man to stop

  • Calendar

    May 1, 2003

    Cuba Gear

    Havana good time at SMoCA

  • Music

    January 2, 2003

    Critics VS 2002: Rebuilding From Ash

    2002 spent the year in a 9/11 hangover. Through the confusion, notable and amazing works still arose

  • Music

    October 10, 2002

    Various Artists

    Mali Music (Astralwerks)

  • Music

    May 2, 2002

    Art and Soul

    Martin Sexton, rock music's black sheep, strikes out on his own. Again.

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Confessions of a Gay, Right-Wing Mormon

    State Representative Steve May is a walking, talking contradiction

  • News

    May 14, 1998

    Letters

    State Representative Steve May is a walking, talking contradiction

  • News

    April 23, 1998

    Letters

    State Representative Steve May is a walking, talking contradiction

  • News

    April 16, 1998

    Blade Runner

    State Representative Steve May is a walking, talking contradiction

  • Music

    March 27, 1997

    Who's the Man?

    With Suge Knight in prison, onetime receptionist Norris Anderson is now the big man on Death Row

  • News

    October 3, 1996

    A Quiet Voice Against the Death Penalty

    Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

  • Dining

    October 3, 1996

    For the Halibut

    Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

  • Culture

    April 18, 1996

    Basic Black

    Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

  • Culture

    October 20, 1994

    BLACK LIKE SHE

    Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

  • News

    May 4, 1994

    TWILIGHT OF THE GOD

    Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

  • Music

    August 19, 1992

    POP GOES THE REVOLUTIONARYTHOMAS MAPFUMO PREPS FOR AN INVASION OF THE WEST

    Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

  • Music

    July 22, 1992

    THE SUNNY KINGTHIS NIGERIAN SUPERSTAR RULES THE REALM OF WORLD MUSIC

    Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

  • News

    February 5, 1992

    WHY JAPAN DOES IT BETTER

    Amnesty International's Dr. Daniel Georges-Abeyie coolly argues the case against capital punishment in our hang-'em-high state

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