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How to Succeed in Your Office Oscar Pool Without Really Trying

Every year, you enter your office's Oscar pool and carefully select the major categories while haphazardly guessing the minor ones (Animated Short, Makeup). Every year, you lose. Why? Because you've got it backward: Oscar pools are always decided on the margins, where information is sketchier and outcomes are harder to...
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Chocolate Leather Clutch at Rocket Resale

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: For those in search of the perfect festival bag, stop looking. No seriously. We already found the perfect clutch that's stylish, slightly worn, and will totally fit a...
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A Sneak Peek at Wolfgang Puck’s Oscar Party Buffet

This Sunday, the celebrities will be hittin' the red carpet for the 84th Annual Acadamy Awards -- and they'll also be hitting the after parties. One particularly popular event is the Governors Ball. Wolfgang Puck will be the head chef for the event but instead of the typical extravagant celebrity...
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Vintage Flower Power Ring from Hey Cary Ann

Each week 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 still a couple weeks away from spring having officially sprung, but when the temps reach and surpass 80 we consider our winter hibernation complete. And that...
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Vintage Harley T-Shirt at Antique Sugar

Each week 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 can already hear the sorority sisters crying, "Wahh. It's getting haaawt. Time to squeeze into those tiny terry cloth shorts with 'CALL ME!' emblazoned on...
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Video Mashup: Brad Pitt Eating. And Eating.

If you thought Angelina's right leg taking on a life - and social life, see Twitter account: @AngiesRightLeg - of its own at this year's Oscars was bizarre enough, wait until you see what the world's been cooking up about her better half. Let's face it, you could put Brad...
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Footnote: Father and Son Grapple Over Their Talmudic Scholarship

In the first scene of 2012 Israel's Best Foreign Language Oscar nominee, Footnote, Uriel Shkolnik (Lior Ashkenazi) — a 40-something Talmudic scholar whose research has earned adulation while his 60-something father's has mostly been ignored — accepts an honor with an obliviously glib speech built around a childhood anecdote about...
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Feedback from the Thursday, April 26th Issue

SOLAR FLARE Small-towners nearly got swindled: Too bad such a worthy [endeavor] — bringing solar energy to fruition in a sunshine state like Arizona — is sullied by charlatans ("The Sunshine Salesmen," Ray Stern, April 12). But you can see how this could happen. First, experienced con men go to...
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Madewell Scottsdale’s Arizona Tote Bag

Each week 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: Arizona's first Madewell opened at Scottsdale Fashion Square yesterday, and we were lucky to pick up one of the shop's limited edition Arizona-themed canvas tote bags...
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Oscar Season: A Look at Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

This year's Academy Award-nominated shorts offer a little something for every viewing temperament — though some categories require sitting through a lot of mediocre to get to the good. Of the five documentaries, Saving Face and God Is the Bigger Elvis were not made available for critics, but the other...
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Music in Chico & Rita Has the Soul its Lovers Haven’t

The music in Chico & Rita has all the soul its lovers haven't. The Oscar-nominated animated musical Chico & Rita opens with a jaw-dropping swoop over modern-day Cuba, a well-grimed and bustling island of densely packed buildings that, here, is immaculately detailed and tinted just so, as to make it...
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Hand-Dyed Ombre Ruffled Tulle Skirt from Ouma

Each week 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: Monique Sandoval's line Ouma specializes in whimsy, airy womenswear. After spotting and loving the formal dress she designed for Project Ethos at The Mint, it's no...
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Mother’s Day Brunch/Dinner Roundup 2012

Sunday, May 13, is Mother's Day -- which means it's time to show Mom how much you love and adore her. Why not show her you care by taking her out to a nice brunch? Brunch a little too early for ya? That's cool, moms also love dinner! Here's a...
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This Is Not a Film: Jafar Panahi Is a Filmmaker Who Isn’t

In 2010, the internationally celebrated Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested at his home. A neorealist who has been a vocal opponent of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's regime, Panahi was accused of "[participating] in a gathering and carrying out propaganda against the system," sentenced to six years in prison, and banned from...
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Clutch Jewelry’s Tasman Wrap Bracelet

Each week 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: When it comes to spring break accessories, we look for pieces that are casual and more adventurous than our everyday bric-a-brac. That's why we're drawn to...
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Where The Wild Things Are

Saturday, January 21, will mark your last chance to catch “Just Animals,” a visualized call to the wild on view at ASU Art Museum. The exhibition, which includes selections from the museum's print collection, captures animals in their most wild and peaceful moments with subtle and obvious reflections on the...
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Top 5 Things to Do This Weekend

If you can manage to break away from Oscar madness this weekend (be sure to check out our Best Actress fashion picks and drinking game), here are five ways to spend your weekend. 5. Gremlins Screening @ MADCAP Theater Cult Classics presents a duo of Gremlins screenings tonight. Joe Dante's...
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95: Eric Schaefer

From now 'til we publish the 2012 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times and Chow Bella present 100 Tastemakers -- Valley residents who make the cut in our culinary scene. Some you'll know; for others, it'll be a first introduction (but likely not the last). While you're here, check...
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Dapper+Dash’s Huckleberry Bow Tie in Chain Gang

Each week 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: Recently launched haberdashery Dapper+Dash specializes in terminally fabulous Brad Goreski's favorite accessory: the bow tie. In three deliciously dandy styles (named Huckleberry, Churchill, and Dagwood), the...
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On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s

It's a warm spring evening on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, and the crowd jostling for hors d'oeuvres in the lobby of the Paramount Theater exudes the anticipatory hum of a gala studio première. Only tonight's feature presentation isn't a new summer blockbuster or year-end prestige release. Rather, it's...