Jive Turkeys

Thanksgiving has always been about kicking back with your family (however dysfunctional they may be) to break some bread and maybe crack a few skulls, to boot. But if you’re gonna be rocking the holiday solo (or can't stomach another tumultuous T-Day with the nearest and dearest), you can always...

By Benjamin Leatherman

November 22, 2007

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Thanksgiving has always been about kicking back with your family (however dysfunctional they may be) to break some bread and maybe crack a few skulls, to boot. But if you’re gonna be rocking the holiday solo (or can't stomach another tumultuous T-Day with the nearest and dearest), you can always commune with the jive turkeys of the Blunt Club family, who're throwing an off-the-chain shindig called Bluntsgiving Day on Thursday, November 22, at Hollywood Alley, 2610 West Baseline Road in Mesa. Hip-hop crew Drunken Immortals lays down the lyricals, Pickster One mans the turntables, and graf artist Dumperfoo slings the paint. Some long-lost members of the Blunt Club crew are also coming by for a visit, as Hyder and DJ Diosa will be jetting in from their new SoCal digs for the event.
Thu., Nov. 22, 9 p.m., 2007

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.

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