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SHWEET!: Flambe Galaktobouriko @ My Big Fat Greek Restaurant

By Steve Jansen It's alive! My only two regrets from visiting the Mill Avenue My Big Fat Greek Restaurant and ordering this custard piled high with vanilla ice cream and caramel? That I didn't get a photo of dude setting this dish (and almost himself) on fire with flambed brandy,...
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Urban Outfitters Tent Sale

Okay, there'll be, like, stuff on sale and stuff, but this ain't your granny's tent sale. G-dawg definitely wouldn't dig the cool noise that'll be echoing through the Mill Avenue District, and it's pretty much a given she wouldn't shell out for the chain's groovy slackerwear. In addition to a...
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Veggie Boy: Three Roots Coffee House and Cafe

By Benjamin Leatherman The three-course meal personified. Lady Luck’s been smiling at me lately. No, I didn’t win the Powerball jackpot, or experience some other windfall. It’s just that things have seemingly been going my way lately. Like yesterday, for instance, when I was doing a full-tilt boogie around the...
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Margaritaville

God bless the souls of Don Cenobio Sauza and José María Guadalupe Cuervo. Why? Because they're the crafty cats who first imported the spirituous concoction known as Tequila to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1870s. Thus, they gave our country one of its favorite mind-erasers. So be sure to...
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Border-Jumping with Roger Clyne

Weekends start early in Rocky Point. The sun hasn't yet set on a Friday night, but the beach is already spattered with vomit. Most people entering the tony Peñasco Del Sol hotel, overlooking the beach, plop cans of cerveza down on the marble counter as they check in. Where they...
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Fixed-gear fanaticism rolls into the PHX

It's nearly midnight on a Saturday in late May, and 50 strong are lined up behind the waist-high brick wall surrounding the Marquee Theatre's parking lot in Tempe. To the few motorists rolling past the Mill Avenue venue, it could be a post-concert crowd gathering after a Vampire Weekend or...
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All About Eve

Is it over yet? Can we look? Don't know about y'all, but we're more than ready to put the titanic clusterfuck that was 2008 behind us. Frankly, we're hoping to forget the past 365-odd days (with the exception of November 4, natch) and welcome 2009 with open arms and more...
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The ID Girl

Why did Laurie Notaro leave her hometown of Phoenix, AZ? Had she sucked the last drop of marrow from every 1990s Mill Avenue moment and chewed the bones into dust? (She does have big teeth.) Whatever the case, the Muchacha del Idiota returns to her former stomping grounds to read...
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The ID Girl

Why did Laurie Notaro leave her hometown of Phoenix, AZ? Had she sucked the last drop of marrow from every 1990s Mill Avenue moment and chewed the bones into dust? (She does have big teeth.) Whatever the case, the Muchacha del Idiota returns to her former stomping grounds to read...
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Tornado Watch

Where do you think the term “The Tempe Tornado” comes from? A reference to the loftification of University Drive or the Anywhereville-ing of Mill Avenue? Nope, the moniker belongs to the one and only Lealand McSpadden, one of Manzanita Speedway’s greatest racecar drivers. The Arizona Motorsports Hall of Fame member,...
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All About Eve

Is it over yet? Can we look? Don't know about y'all, but we're more than ready to put the titanic clusterfuck that was 2008 behind us. Frankly, we're hoping to forget the past 365-odd days (with the exception of November 4, natch) and welcome 2009 with open arms and more...
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The Old Mill: Los Guys, and Tramps & Thieves at Last Exit on Friday, June 13th

Surely Tempe-based Americana/rock bands get tired of the Gin Blossoms comparisons. But that’s the best measuring stick we can come up with for many of the bands making music off Mill Avenue now – including Los Guys and Tramps & Thieves. The music harks back to the days when Mill Avenue was a rock club strip, and heartfelt confessions made their way through lyrics draped over solid Americana strumming and time-tested rock rhythms. The sound always reminded me of Heartland Rock, lost in the desert and trying to find its way back.