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Fact 135 on Watching DJ Swamp Light Himself Aflame While Smashing Records

David Dimmick isn't much of a braggart -- at least as far as we can tell -- but he's got every effin' right to be. Since becoming a DJ in 1996, the dude's C.V. includes sharing stages with some pretty stellar icons from hip-hop history, like the Wu-Tang Clan, Pharohe Monarche, A Tribe Called Quest, ... More >>

For At Any Price Director Ramin Bahrani, Bigger Films Demand Bigger Targets

Christina Black, Convicted of Killing Grandma With a Piece of Fruit, Kills Herself in Prison

The Arizona Department of Corrections says convicted murderer Christina Black apparently killed herself on Tuesday.Black, a 52-year-old former Apache Junction resident, had been in prison since 1999, when she was sentenced to life after fessing up to murdering her grandmother with a piece of fruit.

Kyrsten Sinema: Being Latina Ain't All It's Cracked Up To Be

See also: Kyrsten Sinema Identified (Wrongly) as Latino by NALEO See also: Can Kyrsten Sinema Win in Congressional District 9? See also: Kyrsten Sinema's Hilary Rosen Moment, and Her Persistent Verbal Flubbery My Monday blog item discussing Ninth Congressional District candidate Kyrsten Sinema and ... More >>

Local Butcher Takes Home Gold in National Meat-Cutting Challenge

National Meat Cutting Champion Chris McFarland Shows Us How to Cut Meat from Village Voice Media on Vimeo. Meat Cutting: A Lost Art? But seriously, have you ever stopped to think about just how much skill it takes to cut a huge hunk of meat into sellable steaks? Local butcher Chris McFarland has. ... More >>

Phoenix Suns Bring Winning -- Yes, Winning -- Streak to Four With Weekend Wins Over Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets

​By turning a two-game win streak into a four-game win streak with a pair of wins over the weekend, the Phoenix Suns are currently half a game back of the last playoff spot in the Western Conference, and one game over .500.The Suns' win on Friday night wasn't too unexpected -- Jared Dudley brought ... More >>

Bad Mormon: Mitt Romney's Anti-Immigrant Stance Doesn't Jibe with LDS Teachings

Casey Anthony Murder Trial Eerily Reminiscent Of Phoenix's Debbie Milke Case

Unless you are totally off the news grid (and probably wouldn't be reading this), you, too, are hooked in some fashion on the Casey Anthony murder case down in Orlando.Casey Anthony-- no baby doll​It's probably the nation's most high-profile criminal case perhaps since O.J. Simpson walked out of c ... More >>

Katy Perry Coming to Phoenix (Thank Her Sponsor, Schick Razors!)

​Skankstress Katy Perry just announced a tour date for Phoenix's Comerica Theatre on August 3.It's part of a "California Dreams" tour that starts on June 7 in Atlanta and runs through August 14, the second show in Katy's hometown Santa Barbara, California. Tickets, priced pretty modestly at $3 ... More >>

Jordin Sparks to Play Marquee on July 1... But Seriously, Who is Going to Devirginize Her?

​Jordin Sparks is playing the Marquee Theatre in Tempe on July 1 as part of a national tour that'll take the Glendale native to 35 cities across the country.Sparks, the 20-year-old 2007 American Idol winner, is also slated to make Broadway debut in the 2008 Tony and Grammy Award-winning Best Music ... More >>

Heart Attack Grill Reaches Settlement With Florida-Based Restaurant With Similar, Cardiac Theme

The Heart Attack GrillHere's taste of The Heart Attack Grill's menu. ​Good news to report out of Chandler: The battle of the bulge -- as we referred to it in a post in February -- has been won, and the Chandler-based Heart Attack Grill came out the victor.You may recall that back in February the c ... More >>

Trap and Span Phly Release New Music Downloads

Trap​Phoenix rapper Trap has released a new song from his forthcoming mixtape, I Never Sleep. The song is called "My Gucci" and features Trap flowing over a trippy beat and a Slick Rick "La Di Da Di" sample.Here what Trap had to say about the new song and the status of his highly anticipated mixta ... More >>

Tiger Woods Announced He's Sorry and The Onion Announced His "Return to Sex;" Hilarious

​On the same day that Tiger Woods announced how sorry he was for bonin' cocktail waitresses and porn stars, the satirical newspaper The Onion made an announcement of its own: Tiger Woods will be making his triumphant return to the world of sex -- obviously satirizing his probable announcement ... More >>

Fishy Fundraiser -- Part Two: Arpaio's Office Goes North to Alaska, Spends County Money, Brings Home Bacon for Joe

A couple of weeks ago, we related how a top official with the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office met with some rich guys during a fishing trip in Alaska three years ago. As we were told by the lawyer for the rich guys, Grant Woods, the Alaska trip -- which was attended by MCSO Director Larry Black -- ... More >>

Wild-Card Studs: Phoenix Suns Seek Revenge Against Young-Gun Philadelphia 76ers Tonight

search.espn.go.com Sixers rookie Marreese Speights spanked the Suns in Philly. When last we met the Philadelphia 76ers, back in Philly on February 9, the Sixers' young and relatively rested legs made quick work of the punchy Phoenix Suns, who were coming off a tough win the previous night in ... More >>

Arizona State University's Future Arts Research is Shortsighted in Failing to Focus on Phoenix

Phoenix Business Majoreventrentalz.com Beats Recession By Renting Local Homes to Visiting Sports Fans

Courtesy of Keith Johnson Keith Johnson and the staff at Majoreventrentalz.com are enjoying their success. The Arizona Cardinals failed to grab the brass ring at this year's Super Bowl in Tampa, Florida, but at least one Valley resident came away victorious.Keith Johnson, owner of ... More >>

Apocalypse Diaw: Phoenix Suns Host Boris, Charlotte Bobcats Tonight

www.nba.com Boris Diaw ain't all that. Last Thursday, in one blink of Amar'e Stoudemire's bum eye, the Phoenix Suns' playoff chances took a sucker punch to the gut. Most people's first thought: "Oh. Crap." Most people's second thought: "Oh. Crap. We traded away Boris Diaw." Our second thoug ... More >>

WrestleMania, the Super Bowl of Wrestling, Coming to Glendale; Announcement Expected Tomorrow

We received an e-mail stating that World Wrestling Entertainment will be holding a press conference tomorrow afternoon at the stadium to announce a "major international event" occuring there in spring 2010 that will "draw visitors from around the world for five days of activities." Although the e-ma ... More >>

Breakneck Mountain: Phoenix Suns to Revive the Seven-and-Shoot Tonight Against Clippers Tuesday and Wednesday

This just in from Phoenix Suns owner Robert Sarver and general manager Steve Kerr: Oops. Our bad. Terry Porter, we hardly knew ye. Here's a sack full of cash to salve your wounds. Amar'e -- ha ha. Those trade rumors? We were just kidding. Ya know we love ya, ya big lug. The rest of you guys, run li ... More >>

Patsy Test: Can Phoenix Suns Manage to Beat Golden State Tonight and Friday?

NBA bad boy Stephen Jackson has found a home in Golden State. We're not big Mike D'Antoni fans. As electric as his six-and-shoot system was during the Phoenix days, it was a paper tiger that bared its cardboard fangs come playoff time. Plus, the dude began to buy into his own myth toward the ... More >>

Suns Redeem Themselves vs. Atlanta After Stinking Against Charlotte

The Phoenix Suns longest road trip of the year was a disaster -- until the Big Three (no, not those Big Three) found a way to win against the Atlanta Hawks on Sunday. We're talking about Steve Nash, Amar'e Stoudemire, and Shaquille O'Neal. Nash played so brilliantly against the Hawks ... More >>

What the Obama Campaign and Joe Arpaio Have in Common

Feedback from the issue of Thursday, August 21, 2008

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Who's spinning what, where and when

Music

Who's spinning what, where and when

Last Dance

Fatal Exception is Radio Free America's best -- and possibly final -- album

God Forbid

Tooth & Nail Records celebrates 10 years of punk fire -- and quiet Christian devotion

Letters

Letters from the week of January 1, 2004

Big Scam Theory

Downtown Phoenix has always had its high points, but the Civic Center boondoggle isn't one of them

Operation Mickey Mouse

Could downtown Phoenix get more soulless? Yep! Check out Jerry Colangelo's secret plan.

Letters

Letters from the week of October 9, 2003

Us vs. Them

Make downtown attractive to locals, not to outsiders wearing knee socks and nametags. It only makes sense.

Big? Try Huge!

'Snortin' Whiskey' may be ludicrously over-the-top, but songwriter and guitarist Pat Travers is not

Small World

Radio Disney feeds the new pop underground with music for tweens

Paying the Price

Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

Chick Magnates

Powerful performances from The Weaker Sex

Letter in a Battle

Rediscovered cache of castoff communiqués captures World War II and 1940s Phoenix

Lake Eerie

Java magazine's mysterious architectural digress

Out of God's Hands

Why aren't more churches reaching out to kids in gang-ravaged neighborhoods?

Flashes

Flashes

Bee Minus

Ignore the buzz on Ulee's Gold

Freud Green Tomatoes

Twisted sisters work out the kinks in campy Female Perversions

Pic Hits for the week

American Son

Uncle Tupelo passed away, butheartland rocker JayFarrar has plugged backin with Son Volt

GO WEST, YOUNG PAY-PER-VIEWERLIVING BACK EAST HAS ITS DRAWBACKS, BUT PAYING TO WATCH YOUR NBA TEAM ON TV ISN'T ONE OF THEM

JORDAN ROLLS THROUGH PHOENIX