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Hawaiian Romper from South Diamond

Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it's a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it's on our have-to-have list. What: We're never quite ready for summer to hit, but this floral romper will help us ease fashionably into another hot one -- and embrace our inner Jessa Johansson...
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21 & Over Just Dares You to Get Offended

Guy humor is always with us, kind of like the poor. For as long as cavemen have been etching fart jokes into the walls of caves, women have been rolling their eyes, as they didn't yet have the language tools to whip up outraged essays for Jezebel. Still, given the...
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Inside the Mind of Charlie Sheen

Charlie Sheen lives in a big yellow house on a T-shaped intersection in the middle of a fake neighborhood in a gated community off Mulholland Drive. When I arrive there on a Saturday afternoon in January, I am intercepted in Sheen's driveway by a security guard, a friendly, not intimidatingly...
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Charles Barkley Phoenix Suns Jersey at Cellar Door Vintage

Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it's a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it's on our have-to-have list. What: It's hard to explain our unique brand of all-out affection for ex-Suns star Charles "The Round Mound of Rebound" Barkley, but, boy, did our eyes light up upon...
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Rust and Bone Dismembers Cinema’s Beauty of the Moment

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one must have a heart of stone to watch Jacques Audiard's outrageous melodrama Rust and Bone without laughing. Loosely adapted from two works in Craig Davidson's 2005 short story collection of the same name, Rust and Bone finds Audiard returning to the overdetermined characters and swift...
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Shwood Sunglasses at Hard Goods

Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it's a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it's on our have-to-have list. What: There's plenty of desirable loot packed into the Hard Goods retail space. One of our favorite finds is the selection of Oregon-made Shwood sunglasses, in particular the Canby...
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Les Miserables (Not That One) at Mesa’s New Silver Star Playhouse

The setup: There's a lot of backstory here. Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre went out of business last year, and a venerable, family-friendly Salt Lake City (well, Murray) company, Desert Star Playhouse, took over the cavernous space at Brown and Higley roads to launch a metro Phoenix branch of their silly,...
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Boss Dresser

Wearing an evening gown, top hat, or a monocle in public is tricky -- unless you’re going to some sort of steampunk-themed fete or an Oscar party. Even if an event has a formal dress code, pulling off a monocle without looking like Mr. Peanut or a Bond villain is...
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Harlow Necklace at Kendra Scott Jewelry

Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it's a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it's on our have-to-have list. What: Supremely wearable (and gift-worthy) is this statement necklace with hefty green onyx stones from jeweler Kendra Scott, who recently opened a boutique in the Valley. Where: Kendra Scott...
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A Royal Affair and Dinner at Haus Murphy’s in Glendale

While a jumbo tub of hot buttered popcorn is one of our most frequently indulged guilty pleasures, we think a good movie deserves a little better company than junk food. Try out our movie and meal pairings for yourself or feel free to suggest one of your own favorites in...
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The Hobbit Gets Neither There Nor Back Again

Welcome back to Middle-Earth. It has been nearly a decade since writer-director Peter Jackson last set foot on J.R.R. Tolkien's hallowed ground, signing off on a spectacular trilogy of films adapted from the British author's Lord of the Rings novels. There were box office billions and well-earned Oscars aplenty and...
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Bison Made Leather Wallet

What: We are entirely positive that if Parks and Recreation's Tom Haverford were to stage a Treat Yo'self 2013, this fine leather wallet would be on his to-buy list. Where: Bison Made is a leather goods manufacturer housed in monOrchid. The brand specializes in handmade wallets, like this rustic and...
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Les Misérables and Dinner at Scratch Pastries in Scottsdale

While a jumbo tub of hot buttered popcorn is one of our most frequently indulged guilty pleasures, we think a good movie deserves a little better company than junk food. Try out our movie and meal pairings for yourself or feel free to suggest one of your own favorites in...
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Vintage Aqua Rhinestone Earrings from Found Around

What: This week's find is partially inspired by Sunday's premiere of Downton Abbey, which found our royal Crawleys celebrating a wedding and fearing the aftermath of a ruinous railroad investment. Like that episode, these earrings with their aqua stones reflect on elegance and downfall, as some of the art deco-style...
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Michael Stars Hooded Duster at The Willows

What: Reality, is that you? Prying us away from our cookie-induced holiday stupor? Surely, our fellow sluggards are about as ready for sugar plum-free days as we are. Which is to say: begrudgingly. Very Scrooge-y of us, we know. But this hooded duster (real talk: it's a glorified/glorious robe) will...
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What You Need to Know From Sundance

erpbUpstream ColorBold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color -- a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of the body -- was in a class by itself at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Well, let's say it was a class shared by a more conventional but no less...
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Looking for Director David O. Russell in Silver Linings Playbook

Silver Linings Playbook, which stars Bradley Cooper as a manic-depressive man-child attempting to get his life back together after a breakdown, won the coveted Audience Award at the Toronto International Film Festival in September and subsequently shot to the top of most Oscar prognosticators' Best Picture short list. The film's...
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Donald J. Pliner Chukka Boots at The Clotherie

Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it's a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it's on our have-to-have list. What: They say that clothes make the man, but too often we see gents who don't apply that credo to their footwear. Thankfully, The Clotherie offers up trend-conscious shoe...
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Inky Blue Caftan at Bertie’s Vintage

Gem features one standout piece from a local shop. Whether it's a jacket, necklace, or handbag, it's on our have-to-have list. What: This a-line caftan-style dress taps into fall's baroque trend with an Asian twist through its golden embroidery at the neckline and hems. Where: Bertie's Vintage Cost: $22 See...