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Going Greek

Three ASU art professors have banded together to explore the idea that complexity can exist within what appears to be simplicity. For inspiration printmaker Mary Hood, sculptor Mary Neubauer, and painter-drawer Janice Pittsley look to utopia -- specifically Greece's Arcadia, a region historically reknowned for its paradisiacal landscape and its...
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On FX’s The Bridge, Serial Killers Are a First-World Problem

Mild spoilers up to The Bridge's ninth episode below. Artisanal murders are all the rage these days. On Showtime's Dexter, NBC's Hannibal, and Fox's The Following, small-batch, labor-intensive, sold-with-a-story slaughters have become TV's equivalent of the Cronut. Handsome, intelligent, and mannered as court eunuchs, serial killers have become the new...
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Tortilla Making 101: Flour Tortillas

There's one reason and one reason only for making flour tortillas at home: lard, my favorite four-letter word. Why else bother with all the rolling and flour dusting if it were not for the melt in your mouth delicious flavor of lard? It's a sad reality, but commercially produced lard-based...
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Meet Craft Beer’s First Billionaire, Jim Koch

(And don't worry, it's ok to celebrate. He's not related to those other Kochs.) Jim Koch co-founded Boston Brewing Company in 1984, armed with a family recipe and a brewing process that his great grandfather used in the mid 1800s. These days the brewery, which you'll know for its signature...
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Phoenix to Brooklyn: Meet the New New Yorkers

Editor's note: Claire Lawton worked at New Times and edited Jackalope Ranch for three years, 'til this summer, when she packed up and moved to Brooklyn. This week's New Times cover story focuses on the creative forces in Phoenix who've stuck around the past decade; Lawton checked in with some...
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SB 1062 Was the Best Thing to Happen for Arizona’s LGBT Community

Within hours of Arizona's Republican-dominated Legislature's approving a measure that established a legal defense for business owners to discriminate based on a "sincerely held religious belief," thousands of gay-rights advocates flocked to the lush green lawn at the state Capitol in Phoenix. It was February 21, and they united to...
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SB 1062 Was the Best Thing to Happen for Arizona’s LGBT Community

Within hours of Arizona's Republican-dominated Legislature's approving a measure that established a legal defense for business owners to discriminate based on a "sincerely held religious belief," thousands of gay-rights advocates flocked to the lush green lawn at the state Capitol in Phoenix. It was February 21, and they united to...
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Enter The Entrepreneurs

Last year, Arizona was named the number one entrepreneurial state in the union by CNNMoney, via Kauffman Foundation’s Index of Entrepreneurial Activity. Unsurprisingly, it takes maximum hustle to bring life to the desert and if you’ve got it, you’ll feel at home at CO+HOOTS’ Biz Book Club Tuesday, August 6.The...
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The Skinny On Sugar & Sweeteners

My grandmother, Gloria, should have lived to be 120. She didn't drink soda, refused processed food, exercised, watched her salt & sugar consumption, and controlled her portions. While my siblings and I would stuff our faces at family picnics with hunks of rich sugary cake, she would eat a small...
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Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

From must-see art exhibitions to theater and outdoorsy endeavors, here are Jackalope Ranch's top picks for things to do in and around Phoenix this week. "Georgia O'Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land" @ Heard Museum The brightly painted flowers and daring landscapes of American modernist artist Georgia...
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Arizona Students Bomb Standardized Science and Writing Tests

About half of Arizona students failed their yearly science and writing tests, which are given to gauge their understanding of subjects. The Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test is distributed each year to students in grades 3 through 8 and to 10th graders as well...
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Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

Get out, Phoenix. Here are Jackalope Ranch's top picks for things to do this week. Intro to Stand-Up Class @ Tempe Center for the Arts Whether you have only a tiny kernel of a funny idea that wouldn't add up to half a tweet or you have long, entertaining stories...
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Andrew Breitbart’s Last Interview Was with Joe Arpaio? Myth Busted

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's claim that he was the last person to be interviewed by ​conservative writer Andrew Breitbart is not true.The claim came out during the height of Arpaio's media attention for his "birther" investigation, and like many of Arpaio's sensational claims -- like arresting Elvis or being kidnapped during...
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The Worst of the Best of Phoenix 2013: Political Edition

Editor's Note: In honor of this week's edition of Best of Phoenix, we bring you the Worst of the Best — the political edition. Enjoy. See this year's Best of Phoenix. Best Head-in-Sand Politician Tom Horne, Arizona Attorney General When Tom Horne bested former Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas in...
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Picture Cook: A Graphic Cookbook

Tired of the boring ol' cookbook format with lists of ingredients to measure, cut-and-dried directions to follow to the letter, and not nearly enough pictures? So is Katie Shelly, author of Picture Cook: See. Make Eat. to be released in October. See also: - Pickled Jalapeños: Homemade Spice Straight Out...