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Hey Preservationists, the Central Avenue Macayo’s Facade Won’t be Such a Big Loss

That cacophonous din you hear is the screaming of local historic preservationists who’ve recently learned that yet another significant Phoenix building is about to be torn down. Earlier this month, the owners of Macayo’s Mexican Kitchen announced that they’re looking to sell their iconic Central Avenue building to Atlanta-based Wood Partners, which has lately...
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Weiner Makes Comic Tragedy of a Candidate’s Fall

The first time I saw the documentary Weiner, at Missouri's True/False Festival this past March, Donald Trump was boasting about the size of his cock during a presidential debate. Given the recent direction of our electoral politics, you might think that a film about former New York Representative Anthony Weiner...
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As It Saves the Sitcom Once Again, Amazon’s Catastrophe Is Anything But

The second season of Amazon's Catastrophe might do for the #TGIF-style family sitcom of the late ‘80s and ‘90s what the first did for the ailing rom-com: open-mouthed resuscitation on the operating table after one too many Garry Marshall–fueled heart attacks like Valentine's Day. (Or New Year's Eve? It doesn't...
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The Ultimate Ranking of Every Guns N’ Roses Song

I discovered GNR in the '90s, when MTV was deciding what we liked. At eight years old, running around my bedroom in Superman briefs, my first exposure to a genuine rock star was Axl Rose, who seemed like a pirate hijacking my TV screen when he told me that we were...
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Donald Trump “Schlonged” in New Video by Arizona’s Public Integrity Alliance

Arizona's Public Integrity Alliance, a conservative nonprofit group largely made up of East Valley Republicans, has helped topple former state Attorney General Tom Horne, targeted the slimy political maneuverings of former state Senate President Russell Pearce and his bumbling brother Lester, and put pressure on ex-Arizona Corporation Commission Chair Susan...
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Don Verdean Is to Laughs What the Dead Sea Is to Water

There's terrific comic potential in the idea at the heart of Don Verdean, the latest shrug of a film from Jared and Jerusha Hess, the husband-wife writer-director team behind Napoleon Dynamite, Nacho Libre, and one that for good reason you haven't seen, Gentlemen Broncos. That idea: A fraud of a...
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The Worst Man on TV: Does The Affair Want Us to Detest Noah?

In his 2014 book Difficult Men, journalist Brett Martin identifies bad-boy antiheroes as the defining feature of our current "Golden Age" of television. Tony Soprano, Don Draper, and The Wire's Omar Little dazzle with their multifaceted complexity: How deep the furrow in Tony's troubled brow! How pensive the trail of...
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Prison Killer Who Severed Penis of Victim Sentenced to Death

An Arizona prison inmate who sliced off the penis of a seriously mentally ill inmate before killing him has been sentenced to death. Jasper Rushing, 45, was already serving a 28-year prison sentence for the 2001 murder of his stepfather when he mutilated and beat to death his cellmate, 40-year-old...
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Standing Up to Pee at Coachella: A Tale of Triumph

It was time to break the seal. When used for their intended purpose, port-a-potties are hardly a pleasant experience for either sex. But they can be especially tricky for women. Men only have to squat half the time--women have to for both excretory functions, and it can get a little...