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Top Five Must-See Shows This Week in Phoenix

The weekend is over, and it's back to the grind. You sit there despondent at your desk, visions of a wild weekend replaying your head, scenes from A Good Day to Die Hard -- which you caught a sick matinee showing of -- bouncing around your cranium. How can you get back to that blissful state? Go see ... More >>

Modern Marvels

Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it. Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week.

Lee Hazlewood Re-Issues Chart an Unexpected Trajectory

Lee Hazlewood's "Manager" Wyndham Wallace on the "Surreal and Offbeat" Songwriter

See also: Improbable Lee: Lee Hazlewood Re-Issues Chart an Unexpected Trajectory See also: John Dixon Discusses the Lee Hazlewood-produced "The Fool," by Sanford Clark, 1956 See also: 100 Songs That Defined Arizona In this week's issue, we cover the psychedelic trajectory that brought songwriter/pr ... More >>

CLOSED: Garlic & Shots

How long did it take Tempe Town to decide it wasn't in need of a restaurant concept where all the food items contain garlic and the shots number over one hundred? Around seven months. Garlic & Shots, located at 909 East Elliot Road (at the corner of Elliot and Rural), has closed for business. Th ... More >>

Spotify Ruffles Feathers, Promises Paradigm Shift

Swedish Public School Lunches Make Us Feel Bad, Unless You Don't Like Gravy

See Also: 9-Year-Old School Lunch Blogger 1, Council Censors 0 See Also: Three Ignite Phoenix Videos That Rocked Our World See Also: Beaver Choice Serves Up Swedish Fare That's Too Good to Keep Secret The debate over school lunches has is no stranger to news coverage. We've talked about the 9-year- ... More >>

Rebecca and Fiona: Swedish EDM Duo Is Ready to Take on America

Rebecca Scheja and Fiona Fitzpatrick, known to EDM aficionados as Rebecca and Fiona, are two performers on the rise. Their collaborations with Kaskade, Adrian Lux, and Basutbude have earned them recognition in their homeland, Sweden, but with the release of their debut I Love You Man (due Tuesday, J ... More >>

Southern Lord Tour @ Chasers

94: Hanna Gabrielsson

From now 'til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers -- Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you'll know; for others, it'll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you're here, check out our 100 Creat ... More >>

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo: Rooney Mara Takes Control of the Juggernaut

Find A Date By Pairing Up Your Leftovers Online To Create A Match-Making Meal

​Taking your date out to dinner is pretty common territory for the singles scene. Lantmannen, a farmer's co-op in Sweden, has cleverly come up with an idea to match up available individuals based upon their kitchen leftovers. Doesn't sound quite as romantic as you might want it to be, right ... More >>

The Serene Dominic Show: Crashdïet

​Part 1: Crashdïet LIVE at the Waffle House America is ready for Crashdïet! That's right, we've got Sweden's prime exporters of "sleaze hard rock" in their first American vidcast appearance. Makes ol' Serene Dominic feel a bit like Ed Sullivan to be able to introduce to you for the first t ... More >>

The Sounds @ Marquee Theatre

Opeth @ Marquee Theatre

Beaver Choice Serves Up Swedish Fare That's Too Good to Keep Secret

Five of the Most Expensive Cheeses in the Universe

​There's a lot of weird cheese floating around out there on the Internet. But you don't have to be a foodie to know that you can't put just put any old hunk of curdled milk in your mouth. So for the true cheese connoisseur, we bring you five of the most expensive cheeses in the universe. ... More >>

DJ Smite Brings Latin and Cumbia-Crunk to Two Las Fiestas Patrias Events

​September 15 marks the celebration of Grito de Dolores one of the five Fiestas Patrias, or national holidays in Mexican history. It's an important day, coming directly before Aniversario de la Independencia, the day Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla called for the end of Spanish rule in Mexi ... More >>

Hanna Gabrielsson of Beaver Choice

Maya Dukmasova Hanna Gabrielsson shows off a tray of salmon marinating into gravlax at Beaver Choice ​This week we talk to Hanna Gabrielsson, the woman behind the delightful little Scandinavian bistro with an even more delightful name, Beaver Choice. The restaurant has been open in Tempe on ... More >>

One of Sweden's "Most Wanted" Criminals (a Drug Dealer) Busted in Phoenix. Sneaked Into U.S. Through Mexico

InterpolPredrag Stojanovic​Selling nearly 200 pounds of amphetamine in the United States probably won't land you on the FBI's Most Wanted List, but it apparently will in Sweden, which is where Predrag Stojanovic is one of the country's "most wanted" criminals for allegedly slangin' some speed.Stoj ... More >>

Dungen

Dungen @ The Rhythm Room

All Dried Up At DBG, Crayfish Party, and Fried Egg Cake in Today's Eater's Digest

www.mowielicious.com​ Hungry for your early morning serving of food news, with no preservatives or additives?"Dry It, You'll Like It"Dust off the Ronco and put it to work.Tomorrow night, learn everything you need to know about everybody's favorite subject, food dehydration, at the Desert Bot ... More >>

Fishtank Ensemble

Born from the jammin' of a traveling show

Miike Snow

How Many Bands Can Fit at Club Red?!

​It was exciting to hear one of the Valley's catchiest bands, Violet Wild, is playing a show this Friday, November 20 at Club Red, opening for Days of the New. But after taking a look at the flyer for the show, it's flabbergasting how many freakin' bands are on one bill: a whopping 11. For a ... More >>

Days of the New

Top Underrated Zombie Films

​Every zombie walk and kitschy zombie indie comedy is milking the zombiemania cash cow. However, the films that paved the way still get little recognition, which is a darn shame.These films explore just what a human can do under apocalyptic circumstances and how far people will go to survive. ... More >>

Red-Hot, White, and Brown

Canadian-Indian comic seeks world domination

In Flames

Massive Attack

Here come the big boys of summer

Occult of Personality

Swede and lowdown

Newsaxon.com, the neo-Nazi MySpace, with hot racist chicks galore.

Fishtank Ensemble

Born from the jammin' of a traveling show

Dungen

Ta Det Lugnt
(Subliminal Sounds)

The Comas, and Mando Diao

Break up to wake up

Opeth, and Moonspell

Moodier than your average head-bangers

ELECTRO - The Swedes, Please

Look toward Scandinavia to find 2003's most progressive electronic music. Really.

Borgir Kings

There's more to black-metal exporters Dimmu Borgir than upside-down crosses

Dimension Zero

This Is Hell (Century Media)

Scenes From Nowhere

A Coachella diary from that other desert to the left

The (International) Noise Conspiracy

Bigger Cages, Longer Chains (Epitaph/Burning Heart)

Into the Mouths of Babes

How graying scribes are turning teen pop ballads into songs of experience

The Hives

Veni Vidi Vicious (Epitaph/Burning Heart)

Recordings

Disco Infernal

Rhino's new collection proves that you have no hope of getting disco in a box without leaving something out

Fluffers

The Cardigans play warm fuzzies for a cold, prickly world

SCANDINAVIAN BANDSTANDWHICH NORTHERN EUROPEAN COUNTRY HAS EXPORTED THE RUNNIEST TOP 40 CHEESE?