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Eight Must-See Concerts Over Saint Patrick's Weekend in Metro Phoenix

Local bands and musicians of a Celtic bent have plenty of reasons for their Irish eyes to be smiling right now, as this weekend is pretty much the biggest of the entire calendar year. Saint Pat's lands on a Sunday this year, which means three straight days of partying and performing for rowdy, drunk ... More >>

Jay "Akshen" Valdez Talks Para One, Jam Master Jay, Fools Gold, and More

If you pay a visit to AZ/88 tonight, its urbane décor and trendy drinks won't be the coolest thing going on inside the haute Scottsdale hangout. DJ Akshen will be working hard on the wheels of steel providing a fitting tribute to the late Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys during his weekly gig Fluid F ... More >>

Peoria Perv Goes to Dollar Store for Cheap Thrills; Suspected of Touching Young Girls

Peoria Police Peoria police are looking for this man in connection with aggrevated assault.​A man who walked into a Peoria Dollar Tree on Monday afternoon wasn't interested in bargain shopping. Instead, police say, he inappropriately touched two young girl in two separate incidents.The girl ... More >>

Trivial Matters

If you've got answers, they've got questions

Arty Girl: Rowdy Boutique's Night of Fashion

By stevendepolo on flickr Creative Commons.This is where fashion begins...​In my college days, my "style" was pretty pathetic. I was super poor and I biked to school so all my outfits went like this: ill-fitting jeans, Adidas (hey, it was the early 2000's) and a black or gray wife-beater from the ... More >>

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MSTRKRFT, Dim Mak Have an Interesting Week

In Canada, we wear mustaches, ehIt should come as no surprise to know that in today's music scene, albums are leaked months before their release date. Ever since Napster became all the rage and the MP3 format made world domination a feasible notion in the latter half of the 90's, bands have been se ... More >>

NBA All-Star Game Swag: Eh, We've Seen Better

Wait, that's it?This is the sort of thing ordinary folks get mad about us Media Elites saying, but covering any event -- even a basketball game where the league's biggest stars take turns not playing defense -- is a lot like any other day on the job. There is one exception, and that's the free ... More >>

Seven nights of DJs and dancing

MAC ATTACK! PHX's graff-daddy El Mac makes the LA Weekly's cover on, er, L.A. graffiti.

Just For Fun

They Did What?

2005's top WTF? moments

Something Missing

A best-seller adapted, without the best results

Risky Biz-ness

J. & K. hang with the mullets, bois and lipstickers at P-town's premier gay-girl bar

Washboard Confessional

Holy saccharine. Absolve this man of his sinful affection for pop-punk.

To a Tee

How Andy Brown took his tee shirts from the halls of NorthCanyon High to the racks at Urban Outfitters

America's Ogre of Train Bombing

You don't know about NITTY GRITTY in your city?

Jam Master Jay: 1965-2002

Hip-hop has lost greats before, but this murder is different, as a Houston DJ expresses

Ice Ice Maybe

A decade after Vanilla Ice melted down, he's back with the man who made him.

Royal Screw-Ups

The Royal Tenenbaums is like its characters: flawed genius

Method Men

The Crystal Method's Ken Jordan and Scott Kirkland come back from the sticks with a new album. Finally.

Big Mac on Campus

ASU revolutionary plots a schoolwide food fight

From Russia With Glove

Vassiliy Jirov has answered every challenge in the boxing ring. But his weight division and Russian background may keep him from ever getting the recognition he deserves.

Versus

Hurrah (Merge)

Puttin' On the Ditz

Emily Watson delights and defies definitions as malapropism-prone Trixie

Phoenix or Busted

The Valley is now the prime way station for ruthless smugglers engaged in the lucrative trafficking of human cargo -- illegal immigrants

Don Wan

Valley-based infomercial czar Don Lapre has made millions selling his Money Making Secrets to late-night-TV viewers. So what's the secret behind his bankruptcy?

The Last Pitcher Show

Kevin Costner conquers the mound in For Love of the Game

Kings of Rhyme

Run-D.M.C. keeps pushing to earn respectability for hip-hop

Junkeez for Life

It's do-or-die time for Joe "Soulman" Valiente and the most infamous band in the Valley

Flashes

ASU plays footsie with Nike

High Rollers

The Crystal Method places its bets on technology and cashes in

Recordings

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