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The 15 Biggest Music Stories in Phoenix of 2015

15) Taylor Swift Made 15,000 New Best Friends in Glendale Last Night "They say with enough repetition, even the most asinine messages start to have a ring of truth to them. Hell, that's not even just true in government propaganda. It's the whole basis of the radio industry — "we'll...
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9 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

New Times picks the best things to do in metro Phoenix from Monday, June 20, through Thursday, June 23. For more events, see our curated calendar.  Lisa Hanawalt Though it sounds like the grossest challenge ever, Hot Dog Taste Test is the second illustrated collection from cartoonist Lisa Hanawalt: a...
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UNION at Biltmore Fashion Park in Central Phoenix Has Closed

UNION, the hyper-local shopping hub on the east side of Biltmore Fashion Park in Phoenix, has closed. The news was confirmed by small business employees, former UNION leaseholders, and upper management within Macerich, the company that owns and operates Biltmore Fashion Park and other Valley retail centers. According to sources, a...
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Tour de Fat 2015 at Tempe Beach Park: A Field Guide

Nothing goes together quite like bikes and beer. For many a scruffy cyclist, a day of hard-core riding is only complete after guzzling a pint of frothy IPA. Gear-heads and craft brewers have a lot in common, after all: They like their toys, they savor their experiences, and they like...
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Monster Mash Festival Was a Tale of Two Maynards

If Tool fans were upset by some of the statements Maynard James Keenan made in our cover story this week, they didn't show it last weekend.  Somewhere between 25,000 and 30,000 people packed into Tempe Beach Park Saturday night to hear Tool play its only concert of 2015. The fans ate...
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5 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

"Cactus and Coral" It is a rare moment when one can see the world from someone else’s point of view. Through Each Others Eyes, promotes that concept via cultural exchange, placing photographers in unfamiliar settings to understand how they see things. With the “Cactus and Coral” exhibit, photographers from Australia...
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Pita Jungle to Close Original Tempe Location, Reopen on Mill Avenue

In 1994, Bassel Osmani, Nelly Kohsok, and Fouad Khodr noticed diners wanted more healthy food options. In response, they quit their jobs and opened the first Pita Jungle restaurant at 1250 East Apache Boulevard in Tempe. Fast-forward 20 years and that one restaurant has grown to become a mini-chain of...
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7 Calls to Artists in Metro Phoenix

You can’t win if you don’t play. It’s true for the lottery, and it’s true for landing places to show your art work. Metro Phoenix artists have several opportunities to up the odds of more people seeing their work in the form of seven recently issued calls for artists. One...
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25 Best Thanksgiving Weekend Parties in Phoenix

When it comes to the major drinking holidays of the year, Thanksgiving Eve ranks up there as one of the biggest. As a matter of fact, it's widely considered to be second only to New Year's Eve and Saint Patrick's Day in term of its enormity.  Groove Candy Pre-Thanksgiving Party...
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7 Best Things to Do in Phoenix This Weekend

Gallery Talk: Ehren Tool and Garth JohnsonEhren Tool found ceramics as a creative outlet after serving as a marine in Operation Desert Storm. The veteran handcrafts cups covered in imagery referencing the effects of military service on veterans and the impact of war on societies. Serving as both social commentary...
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Holy Spirits Bar and Restaurant Is Now Open in Old Town Scottsdale

Scottsdale has gained another place for food and drinks in Holy Spirits, a recently opened restaurant and bar located at 7318 E. Stetson Drive. The dining and drinking spot offers beer, cocktails, and a menu of "tapas" — though the shareable dishes seem more like small plates than traditional Spanish cuisine.  The...
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Umami in Tempe: Happy Hour Report Card

Each week we venture to a new restaurant to check out what the spot has to offer during our favorite time of day — happy hour. Whether it's affordable appetizers, delicious drinks, jaw-dropping deals, or none of the above, we'll check out the situation and report back.  The Spot: Umami 21...
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7 Best Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Weekend

"Statement Piece" Pottery goes political at ASU Art Museum Brickyard, as curator Garth Johnson presents “Statement Piece,” an exhibition pairing works from Danish-born war objector Erik Gronborg and American veteran Ehren Tool, who served in Operation Desert Storm. Though from different backgrounds, the two have used functional ceramics in their...
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Heritage Hump Day – The Hoodwinks, “The King”

Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That's because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector's item of a much beloved...
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6 Back to School Parties in Metro Phoenix

College kids of the Valley, we've got both good news and bad news to drop on y'all — and as always, we'll get the bad news out of the way first. The beginning of the fall semester (and thus, the school year itself) is less than a week away. For...
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9 Rules for Biking in Tempe

For cyclists, Tempe is a mythical place. With its 175 miles of bikeways and thousands of bike commuters, the sunbaked college town has won global attention for its pedaling population. The website TravelPulse even named Tempe one of the seven most bike-friendly cities in the world. And unlike cyclists in...
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Madcap Theaters

After Harkins moved out of the theater space on Mill Avenue for fancier digs at nearby Tempe Marketplace, the Downtown Tempe Community (DTC) moved in and created the Mill Avenue District Community Arts Project (or MADCAP), which sought to reinvigorate the area through the reopening of this multi-purpose theater space. Since, they’ve brought in independent […]