Hip-hop Hootenanny

After more than four years of rocking the Stray Cat Bar & Grill, the members of Wildlife Refuge have moved their weekly hip-hop hootenanny down University Drive to the Big Fish Pub. But while the location has changed, the game remains the same: fresh rhymes, urban jams, and some of...
By Benjamin LeathermanApril 16, 2009
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After more than four years of rocking the Stray Cat Bar & Grill, the members of Wildlife Refuge have moved their weekly hip-hop hootenanny down University Drive to the Big Fish Pub. But while the location has changed, the game remains the same: fresh rhymes, urban jams, and some of the best undergound hip-hop artists our town has to offer.

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Benjamin Leatherman is a staff writer for Phoenix New Times where he focuses primarily on arts, culture, music and nightlife. He joined New Times in 2003. Prior to that, he contributed to magazines such as Tips & Tricks and The Wrestler. Benjamin has earned multiple awards from the Arizona Press Club including an award for sports enterprise reporting in 2009 and an award for statewide arts reporting in 2014. He holds a bachelor’s of arts in journalism from Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

benjamin.leatherman@newtimes.com

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