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Arizona Diamondbacks: Our Top-10 All-Time Favorites — and Why

As baseball fans from around the nation and, indeed, the world, trickle into the Valley of the Sauna for the All-Star festivities, we thought this would be a fine time to shout out a few lists. We've literally been on hand since the first pitch (by right-hander Andy Benes, March...
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MLB All-Star Game: Celebrities and Legends Kick Off Festivities

​The All-Star festivities officially kicked off Saturday, bringing a swarm of fans, media, and celebrities to Phoenix. This year also happens to mark the 10-year anniversary of the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks' World Series win over the New York Yankees, which makes for great timing for the mid-summer classic to be hosted in...
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The Best and Worst Baseball Songs

As a lifelong baseball fan, these lists come from the heart. Some lesser-known ballads will have their day in the sun while other too-oft worshiped pieces of garbage will finally be called out. I am not doing this to make any friends. It is all for the love of the game.
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Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend

This weekend's packed with First Friday shows, Fringe Festival performances, Phoenix Film Festival screenings, Final Four matches and Spring Training innings. What, you still need something to do? Let us help.​Arts and Flowers @ Phoenix Art MuseumAs any fan of Lady GaGa can attest, impressive dresses can be made outta anything...
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A Spring Training Guide to Food and Drink – West Side

This week Chow Bella takes a look at the culinary options available to Spring Training fans outside of the stadiums. Yesterday we took a look at the East Valley. Today we'll feature dining and drinking options for all games held in the West Valley. Peoria Sports Complex San Diego Padres...
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This Week’s Day-by-Day Picks

Thu 13 Mindless entertainment has its place (and this summer, it drives a pink pickup cross-country with Nicole Richie), but folks looking for thoughtful theater can wrap their minds around A New Brain, which heads into its final weekend at Theater Works. William Finn's semiautobiographical musical -- enjoying its Arizona...
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Dome Luck

"I'm having a terrible life," said Colin. The two ladies who heard his lament burst into strangled hoots. Unlike some you might point to, this pair of women were not entirely insensitive to a man's pain. One was even his mother. But Colin is only 5 years old. Naturally he...
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Is Anybody Listening?

Maestro Hermann Michael, the new music director for the Phoenix Symphony, is a natty man who wears two-tone shoes and layers sweater vests over short-sleeved shirts, even when temperatures outside reach 100. He beams and beckons his way through rehearsals with the orchestra, slashing out perfect Nike swooshes with his...
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Pic Hits for the week

thursday january 30 Eugene Chadbourne: "Dr. Chadbourne" is one of the last standing champions of noncommercial alternative music; if gonzo was a sound, it might sound something like his. The absolutely unpredictable and artistically unfettered guitarist has made forays into free jazz, acid rock, avant blues and faux-redneck noise (with...