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Counter Culture Cafe Returns with a Tempe Twist

It seems that everyone's favorite 24 hour coffeehouse is on the verge of a comeback. The Counter Culture Cafe used to offer music, art, and locally-made goods and clothing along with coffee, light snacks, sandwiches, and wifi available at all hours until they were unceremoniously booted from their home on the northwest...
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Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

THURSDAY 7 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Moy, & DJ Jared Paul (Top 40, hip-hop, Latin) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (jazz, blues, country, R&B, rarities) Bomberos: Rani G., dk.strickler, Deon Pearson, & Alkeme (house) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Club Rain: DJ MC Lyte (hip-hop) Club Red: The Blunt Club with...
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Saint Misbehavin’

You needn't bother trying to get hold of Brian O'Carroll on St. Patrick's Day, because he's gonna be a wee bit occupied. The bearded guitarist and frontman for local Celtic rock outfit The Biffos will be busy bounding around town with his bandmates during Lá Fhéile Pádraig, staging gigs at...
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Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

THURSDAY 14 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Moy, & DJ Jared Paul (Top 40, hip-hop, Latin) Bikini Lounge: DJ Shane Kennedy (jazz, blues, country, R&B, rarities) Bomberos: Rani G., dk.strickler, Deon Pearson, & Alkeme (house) Club Red: The Blunt Club (hip-hop) Hanny's: William Fucking Reed (lounge, downtempo, house) Margarita Rocks: DJ...
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St. Patrick’s Day Guide

You needn't bother trying to get hold of Brian O'Carroll on St. Patrick's Day, because he's gonna be a wee bit occupied. The bearded guitarist and frontman for local Celtic rock outfit The Biffos will be busy bounding around town with his bandmates during Lá Fhéile Pádraig, staging gigs at...
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Iran Supporters Rally at Arizona State University

Clad in green and clutching picket signs, hundreds gathered at Arizona State University on Sunday to show solidarity for post-election protests that have left at least 20 people dead. "This summer, the youth of Iran have shown an enthusiastic push for freedom, and as a result we have witnessed a...
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Arty Girl: Craft Fair Showdown This Weekend

Load your glue gun, sharpen your knitting needles and download Eye of the Tiger to your itunes...There are three craft fairs going head to head this weekend in this town and I want to see some blood.Just kidding. Actually, I'm pumped that everyone's so jazzed about getting all hands-y and...
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International Movement Against Iran Comes to the Desert

  Bored with the outrage that our own government has offered in recent months, Greater Phoenix is going global and will be one of 50 sites across the planet that will protest the controversial elections in Iran last month. The hoopla stems from the June 12th election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad and allegations that he stole...
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Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

THURSDAY 17 AZ88: DJ Mark 5 (rare groove, trip-hop) Baja Tilly's: Electric Thursdays with DJ Flair (Top 40, pop, hip-hop) Bobby Q's: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop) Bomberos: Rani G., dk.strickler, Deon Pearson, & Alkeme (house) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: UK Thursdays with The Gaslamp Killer, HavocNdeeD, Amen Ra, Xian...
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How Treme Can Get It Right

'Price was twelve, bruh.' 'Say bruh. Them twelve hundred was for eight pieces.' A deal's going down, yeah. But not the sort we're used to witnessing between black men on a television show set in an American city. Certainly not a David Simon drama on HBO. Yet before even a...
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Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

THURSDAY 31 27th Avenue Bar: DJ Moy, DJ Ariez, & DJ Jared Paul (Top 40, hip-hop, Latin) Afterlife: Leavin '09 & Bringin in the Dyme with DJ Nforce, Jon Amaral, & DJ Breez (hip-hop, dance, rock) Axis/Radius: Space Odyssey 2010 with DJ J-Alan and DJ Swerv (hip-hop, dance, rock, Top...
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Seven Nights of DJs & Dancing

THURSDAY 10 AZ88: DJ Mark 5 (rare groove, trip-hop) Baja Tilly's: Electric Thursdays with DJ Flair (Top 40, pop, hip-hop) Bobby Q's: All-Star Thursdays (hip-hop) Bomberos: Rani G., dk.strickler, Deon Pearson, & Alkeme (house) Bunkhouse: DJ Doom (dance) Cherry Lounge: UK Thursdays with The Gaslamp Killer, HavocNdeeD, Amen Ra, Xian...
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Summer of Sound: Americana Show Saturday

New Times annual local music showcase, Summer of Sound, starts this Saturday at Mill Cue Club. Yes, Mill Cue Club. It's part of our effort to bring music back to Mill Avenue, where all five of our genre-based shows (Americana, pop, indie, hard rock, hip hop) will be. The show...
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Madness on Mill?

There’s a lingering myth about Tempe’s Mill Avenue – based largely on a few anomalous years in the ’90s -- that the Ave is some sort of creative bastion. It certainly should be. Situated within bottle-slinging distance of one of America’s largest public institutions, it’s a beacon for attractive young...