Like nearly everyone in Phoenix, songwriter Stephen Steinbrink (you may recognize his project named French Quarter, as well) has a love/hate relationship with the city. It's easy to love the pockets of true community, the DIY art spaces, punk rock house shows, and the affordable, delicious Mexican food, but the...
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Feat of Clay
There's plenty to be worried about these days. Just off the top of our heads, there's the very real possibility of a Mitt Romney presidency, the horrors of the ever-lagging economy, and all that folderol about whether or not the world's ending in a couple of months. Frankly, your brains...
Cinco de Mayo Chihuahua Races in Chandler On Cinco de Mayo, most folks seem to favor the Cinco de Drinko mantra, but Chandler's annual Chihuahua races offered a family friendly alternative. The main attraction was the races, where some well-trained pooches obediently raced to the finish line, while others sat...
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Halloween Guide 2012
Tempe's Mill Avenue and Scottsdale's Marshall Way are about to get a second dose of public art eye candy. The second cycle of IN FLUX -- a program that commissions, promotes and enables the installation of temporary art in and among vacant and active storefronts -- is in full gear...
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Club Candids: Rula Bula
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery -- who's publicly endorsed Tempe mayoral candidate Michael Monti -- transferred the case involving allegations against Monti's opponent, Tempe Councilman Mark Mitchell, to Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk.The case, as we wrote about yesterday, involves a woman claims Mitchell engaged in some sexual activities with...
Last August, a large wooden crate arrived at the sandwich shop Pane Bianco. In the crate -- bearing an Austrian return address -- was a 1600 pound stone mill and sifter: the sole piece of machinery that would revive Tempe's century and a half-old Hayden Flour Mills brand for which...
[jump] I've spent the last 30 years eating Mexican food around the Valley, and I've eaten at all of the old places, the standard places, the places that people have been shot in front of an hour after I left, and sure, the gringo places. Restaurant Mexico stands alone. There...
"Found Out About You," Gin Blossoms, Dusted, (1989, San Jacinto) Having spent close to 15 years booking the old Long Wong's on Mill Avenue, Sara Cina played a huge role in Tempe's vibrant music heyday of the '90s. She was as much a part of the venerated Mill Avenue dive...
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If all goes as planned in the next 60 days, uptown Phoenix could get its own Changing Hands Bookstore. According to Cindy Dach, co-owner and general manager of the Tempe-based independent bookstore, an offer made by Jon Kitchell and Lorenzo Perez of Venue Projects was accepted for the long-gone Beef...
Over the past few years, Blake Ludera (a.k.a. Ill-legal?), Mary Mahan, and the other bassheads behind the scenes at UK Thursdays have worked their collective asses off to make the dance night famous among EDM fans as the best place in the Valley to hear dubstep. Thing is, the weekly...
If the world doesn't decide to come to an end this year, I'm predicting that Mill Avenue will be nothing but ridiculous college bars, sandwich stations and frozen dessert shops by 2015. Okay, the Starbucks will probably stick around and maybe the bank, but other then that every other store...
A couple months back, after spending an afternoon drooling over eBay shop Meat Market Vintage's eclectic, sometimes out-there stock, we mooned over the possibility that the couple who run the online store, Cory Martinez and Ben Funke, might someday have a place where we could admire their funky wares IRL...
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Dressed to Swill
As our sister blog, Jackalope Ranch reported earlier this month, women's apparel eBay shop Meat Market Vintage is now open for business on Mill Avenue in Tempe. The industrialized storefront boasts: "Meat Market Vintage runs the gamut of unique 20th century apparel for trend-setting (and trend-smashing) women all around the...
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Every major drinking holiday that takes place in America each year -- whether we're talking St. Patrick's Day or New Year's Eve -- typically involves two things: Copious amounts of cheap beer or discounted hooch being consumed and people getting slizzered while wearing funny hats. Cinco de Mayo is no...
Free online music service Spotify has plenty of fans (and nearly as many vocal detractors) but let's stick to the facts. According to the music library, Ladylike is a "rock-oriented version of The Pussycat Dolls," a "contemporary girl group comprised of four striking vocalists." Below the description, you can listen...
On Sunday, The Arizona No Pants Light Rail Ride confused public transportation users for the fourth year in a row. (Hey, we warned you.) After a quick pants-less stroll down Mill Avenue, the group met for food and drinks at Robbie Fox's Public House on Mill Avenue and Sixth Street. We...
Before the Corporatization of Mill Avenue, the Tempe party center was more about music and less about $3 Long Islands. But the Downtown Tempe Community is looking to bring the street back to its roots with Music on Mill, a weekly music series on Thursday nights that has been a...