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Handmade Riot’s Laker Hater Tank

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 dig all the offerings from Phoenix-based home goods company Handmade Riot, run by James Waldron and former New Times contributor Nicole Whittington. But with the Lakers making...
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AVN Awards 2013: The Least Dressed (NSFW)

Last weekend, The Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas hosted the 2013 AVN Awards. Adult film star Asa Akira took home the award for Best Female Performer while James Deen snagged the prize for Best Male Performer. If you don't know who those people are, it's okay, we don't either...
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Sundance 2013: America’s Black Indie Film Renaissance

Rachel MorrisonMichael B. Jordan (The Wire), who's fully up to the challenge, in Fruitvale.You could hear a pin drop during the first Sundance screening of writer-director Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale, an enormously powerful and moving debut feature based on the shooting death of 22-year-old Oscar Grant by Oakland transit police in...
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Dream Theater

Beyoncé will hold court at this year's Super Bowl halftime show as the planet’s preeminent pop star. And up until a few weeks ago, we would've assumed members of her former group, Destiny’s Child, would spend the day noshing on seven-layer dip like the rest of us. But, the pop...
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Espirit Floral Skirt at Superstition 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: April showers bring May flowers, and with spring come floods of florals. Embrace the flowery fun with a vintage A-line miniskirt sporting a busy arrangement of small, colorful...
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The Used, Marquee Theatre, 2/24/13

The Used @ Marquee Theatre | 2/24/13 On Sunday night, the Marquee Theatre reverberated with the sound of cheering fans and hardcore screamo tunes on the Take Action Tour, which aims to raise awareness about such issues as teen suicide, bullying, and more (super-badass). The tour this year consists of...
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Champ Pullover from Hello Apparel

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: Yes, emerald is Pantone's choice color for 2013. But spring runways featured a more muted green -- sea foam, specifically -- with such designers as Carolina Herrera, Diane...
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Leather and Quartz Bracelet from Melis

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 rustic, rocker-chic statement bracelet pairs gray leather with an oversize blue druzy quartz stone surrounded by studs. From Where: Melis is an accessories purveyor that was showcased...
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The Five Best Wes Anderson Commercials

Those who enjoy film director Wes Anderson's visual style, witty dialouge, and sepia-soaked color schemes -- well, they just get it. Some people, actually a lot of people, don't. There's very little middle ground on the subject, which is why he might not be a natural choice to direct commercials...
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Five Must-See Movies in Phoenix This January

January is a dumping ground. Here lie your already failed resolutions, holiday cookie weight, and all the movies that weren't up to December's Oscar-bait snuff. But don't fret. Thanks to a few theaters, museums, and Phoenix-based movie buffs, this month won't be all lost when it comes to moviegoing. Mark...
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Silver Linings Playbook and Dinner at Legends Sports Bar

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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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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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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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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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,...