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Top 5: Worst Gifts for Foodies

We love to cook. We love good food. So why do people claiming to understand our passion give us Chili's gift cards, elf aprons and used chocolate body paint? It's not their fault, really. They just need a little help. That's why, this holiday season, we've done the dirty work...
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Topical Paradise

Everyone is plotzing because Marlo Thomas is coming to town to do an Arizona Theatre Company play, but how about this? That play, George Is Dead, was written and directed by Elaine May. Hello! Elaine May! As in Elaine May and Mike Nichols. As in Heaven Can Wait and The...
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Swell Band, Bad Relationship

Neil Sedaka was right: Breaking up is hard to do. Especially when you and your lover are a pair of working musicians with a productive and profitable creative partnership. Then it's real, real hard. The trick, if you can do it: Break up, but don't disband. Glen Hansard and Marketa...
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21st Century Foxx

There's a long list of actors who want to be musicians. Some of them form bands with bad names like Russell Crowe's 30 Odd Foot of Grunts and Keanu Reeves' Dogstar. Some even scored as musical one-hit wonders, such as Eddie Murphy and Bruce Willis. Few, however, have moved beyond...
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Best Traditional Art-Film Theater

Harkins Camelview 5Though there’s still some lingering heat, the summer blockbuster season is over, meaning we can avoid overwhelming explosions, manic car chases, and one-note comedies. That’s why Harkins Camelview 5 is our haven year-round. Anytime we want to escape the typical celluloid tedium, we can settle into the last theater that the chain’s founder, Dwight “Red” […]
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Identity of Florida Marlins Pitcher Stolen by Chandler Man, According to Police

Arizona is the off-season home to countless professional baseball players, so, in December, police pulling over a relief pitcher for the Florida Marlins wouldn't be that faratched.Unfortunately for a Mexican national living in Chandler, it's September, and the Marlins aren't in town to play the D-Backs.So, when 41-year-old Oscar Corral...
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The Fab Four

“The opener, the closer, the French film, the Italian film.” According to Amy Ettinger, director of the Scottsdale International Film Festival, these movie types are the bread-and-butter in an international fest. Even audience members who loathe subtitles, Ettinger explains, will usually turn out for a French or Italian flick. Ettinger...
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Thursdays at Bomberos

Oscar Mastrantuono's wine bar Bomberos, 8801 North Central Avenue, is arguably the dopest place to tie one on in the Sunnyslope neighborhood, as the drinking den offers any number of South American wines by the glass and bottle. The swanky joint gets even more cool every Thursday evening as deep...
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Best Post Office

The Federal Building United States Post OfficeWe’re in love with the downtown post office, plain and simple. It speaks to our fondness for old architecture, with its wide stone steps leading up to the front door, over which a giant lantern sways in front of an elaborate glass-and-grillwork doorway framed by concrete columns on either side. Inside we can’t help but […]
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Best Second Act

Gerda Weissmann KleinThe story of Scottsdale resident Gerda Weissmann Klein proves that America is, indeed, the land of second acts — F. Scott Fitzgerald be damned. Born in Poland in 1924, Klein survived labor camps, concentration camps, and death marches to marry one of the American G.I.’s who liberated her — Kurt Klein, a German-born Jew whose […]
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Bomb Squad

If you crossed the Elvis Presley movie Paradise, Hawaiian Style with Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, you’d get . . . well, a film absolutely nothing like Paradise Now. Hany Abu-Assad’s tense, well-acted 2005 drama concerns two young men from the West Bank struggling with whether to carry out a suicide bombing...
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Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Lenny White

So maybe this is the year of the celebrity death, but 2007 had its share. That year, all sorts of heavy-hitting jazz musicians crossed to the other side, including Alice Coltrane, Max Roach, Michael Brecker, Oscar Peterson, and Joe Zawinul. The past two years haven't been immune either (Freddie Hubbard,...
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Departures: It’s Hard to Stay Mad at This Surprise Oscar Winner

The stately Japanese movie Departures comes into theaters trailing some justified ill will for having trounced the critical favorite, Israel's Waltz with Bashir, for Best Foreign Film at last year's Academy Awards. It's not hard to fathom what Academy voters, who skew mature, saw in Departures, an earnest appeal for...
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Soul Power Documents an Epic Concert

"When you bad," boasts the young and beautiful, piss-and-vinegar-filled Muhammad Ali early in the documentary Soul Power, "you can do what you wanna do." The film, which takes too long to get to the meat of its matter — but captivates once it does — is an addendum to Leon...
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On Losing Soccer Matches to Yanquis

Why does El Tri act like pendejos every time the U.S. men's national soccer team kicks their ass? They won't even shake hands or exchange jerseys after the game and they always act like the U.S. got lucky with the win, even though the Americans have destroyed Mexico on the...