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King Khan and BBQ Show @ the Ruby Room, Monday, November 12

By Niki D'AndreaNovember 15, 2007
This past Monday, a pair of stone cold BFFs named King Khan and BBQ rolled through town on their way to god-knows-where, and man alive did the whole sordid affair ever stink of greatness. These two shifty characters are veterans of '90s garage-rockers the Spaceshits, where they were known by various pseudonyms (Blacksnake, Needles, Creepy, etc.) that have given way to this, their latest incarnation, the King Khan and BBQ Show.
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Heavy Meddle

By Niki D'AndreaOctober 25, 2007
Every time I've been around Eddie Kelly, the singer for Blessedbethyname, some beautiful woman has shoved her breasts in my face. Kelly works as a DJ at Centerfolds Cabaret on Peoria Avenue, and even though I've been trying to interview him in a "quiet place with few distractions" for the...
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Dylan Avery discusses balls; Uh, not his own, of course.

By Stephen LemonsAugust 9, 2007
Can someone cue "Three Blind Mice"? So Dylan Avery likes talking about balls, and doods with balls in their mouths. Hey, that's his mature way of responding to critics, by using all that homoerotic imagery floating around his noggin'. As Jerry Seinfeld might say, not that there's anything wrong with...
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Don’t Mind If I Do

By C.M. ReddingSeptember 13, 2007
I'm driving down Hatcher toward Seventh Street in Sunnyslope on a Thursday night when I see two hot girls walking and . . . Wait, they are checking me out! Surely, the minivan must be doing its magic. I'm staring and almost miss the green arrow that will point me...
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Thump Day Honey Number 3: The Tres Curvaceous Tamara.

By Stephen LemonsMarch 22, 2007
Paris Troy Hotter than a Georgia firecracker; so hot you could bake bread on her back, or maybe a frozen pizza...uh, you get the picture. For some reason Thump Day Honey sounds a lot cooler than Hump Day Honey, and it also gives me an extra day to snag a...
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Meet the Arizona Republic’s Orwellian Information Center

By Stephen LemonsMarch 26, 2007
OutNow By order of the almighty Gannett and its faithful servant John Zidich, journalism as you know it will now cease to exist! Below is the makeup of the Arizona Republic's new Information Center, the Orwellian Gannett construct which merges the newsroom with online, makes redundant a print paper, and...
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Geekology 101

By Scott FoundasJune 7, 2007
There is a moment in "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers," the 14th episode of the brilliant but canceled television series Freaks and Geeks, when gangly, bespectacled, picked-last-in-gym-class high school freshman Bill Haverchuck (Martin Starr) arrives home from school, makes himself a grilled cheese sandwich, and sits down to watch an...
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Obama, No Osama: New York Times readers not interested in terrorism…

By Stephen LemonsJanuary 24, 2007
Wikimedia Commons The Kingdom and the Power, as long as you've got crossword puzzles and Disney teenyboppper tripe. Five-plus years since the largest terrorist attack on American soil, and readers of The New York Times, still the nation's most esteemed news source despite Jayson Blair's monkeywrenching, are more interested in...
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Hump Day Honey #1: Sumita Tomerlin

By Stephen LemonsJanuary 31, 2007
courtesy Sumita Tomerlin Foxy Lady: Sumita loungin' it up... Wednesday is hard, and to get past it and closer to the weekend, we need help. That's my thinking behind my new Wed. feature: Hump Day Honeys. Every Wednesday, I'll feature some amazing babe from the Valley of the Sun along...
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How to Choose a Wine

By Benjamin LeathermanJanuary 18, 2007
Right now, vino is pretty damn keen-o. Never before has wine enjoyed the prominence and popularity it does now, whether being imbibed by scenesters, serving as a social lubricant at fancy fetes, or getting lauded in flicks like Sideways. So it's probably a good idea your uncultured ass knew about...
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Hookers and Blow

By Brendan KelleyNovember 20, 2006
Radio Free America I know what you're thinking, but no, this isn't a recap of how I spent the weekend. It's almost the holidays so I had to forego the hookers this time around. Rather, this post is marking a milestone of sorts for Radio Free America, soon to be...
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Diet From Hell

By Ray SternMay 10, 2007
Health food was always on the menu at the small south Scottsdale apartment where Blair and Kimu Parker lived with their three children. The Parkers were vegan, a common but less-than-household term that sounds distinctly extraterrestrial, possibly because the star Vega has spawned numerous science-fiction aliens that bore the name...
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A Salute to the Working Man

By Gustavo ArellanoOctober 12, 2006
How can you explain the disparity between Japan and Mexico? Japan is a nation a fraction the size of Mexico, with zero natural resources, suffered a devastating war of four years that included two atom bombs, yet has reached the highest in educational achievements, technological advancements and economic power. Then...
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Latest PHX Dish

By Serene DominicJune 15, 2006
The lousy CD cover to Knives in the Attic's 5 song EP, Death Pop, does it a great disservice. Sure, the blood-spattered, knifed teddy bear doodle fits the angst/death-obsessed lyrics, but it comes off amateurish. And this is a band that should be in the midst of a bidding war,...
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Kitty Litter

By Bill GalloFebruary 9, 2006
This is not George Lazenby making his doomed run at James Bond, or even Mel Gibson presuming to play Hamlet. This is serious heresy, combined with a touch of felonious assault. It has evidently not occurred to Steve Martin that, just as there is only one Eiffel Tower, there is...
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Risky Business

By Paul RubinJanuary 19, 2006
It's a Saturday evening in late November on the border of Phoenix and Glendale. The scent of barbecue drifts through the brisk air on a residential street just north of Camelback Road. All seems quiet at the moment in this working-class neighborhood. But just after 10 p.m., two cars turn...
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The Case of the Wily Coyote

By Paul RubinApril 6, 2006
For Margarita Parada, a 19-year-old from a village deep in Mexico, the adventure of a lifetime is about to start. It is April 11, 2005, and Margarita has stuffed a suitcase and her backpack with favorite clothes and personal mementos. Margarita is the second youngest of Maria and Pablo Parada's...
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Slam Bang

By Niki D'Andrea and OthersNovember 10, 2005
WED 11/16If you're looking for an alternative to Hollywood's seasonal onslaught of high-concept blockbusters, you'll find it at "Video Slam!" -- a digital offshoot of the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's popular "Slide Slam" series. "Video Slam!" features experimental offerings by Tony Ash and Steve Gompf and a screening of...
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The Case of the Jealous Lover Boy

By Paul RubinFebruary 16, 2006
Gary Sedlacek is awakened by someone pounding on a side door to his home in downtown Phoenix's historic Coronado District. It's about 5:30 on a dark, drizzly morning, February 19, 2005. At the door is Shawn Drake, Sedlacek's 29-year-old neighbor from a few doors down on North Richland Street. Drake...
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The Case of the Fatal Femme

By Paul RubinMarch 9, 2006
Gabe Cruz was pumped as he left work at 3 a.m. on the morning of March 3, 2005, a Thursday. Gabe had put in a long shift as a "bar back" at Graham Central Station, a popular Tempe establishment. He'd hustled all night, cleaning tables and stocking the bar at...