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“Honor Killing” Case Goes to Jury as Killer Dad Stays Mum

By Paul RubinFebruary 14, 2011
Faleh Almaleki's attorney had but three words to say when the Maricopa County Superior Court judge asked him to call his first witness late this morning. "The defense rests," assistant public defender Jeffrey Kirchler muttered. It meant that Almaleki, the 50-year-old Glendale man accused of murdering his daughter Noor and severely...
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Reckless Kelly @ Rhythm Room

By Craig OuthierDecember 2, 2010
Not quite the Dropkick Murphy-style fiddle jockeys their name vaguely depicts, Reckless Kelly has been making twangy alt-country roots-rock since they formed in Bend, Oregon, in the mid-'90s. Named after Australian bank robber Ned Kelly, the band later relocated to Austin and released a string of well-received country-charting albums, including...
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Crafting like a Man with Patrick Murillo: Bobblehead Dolls

By Colin LecherNovember 29, 2010
Some people are crafty, some aren't (i.e. me). It's the way of the world. But taking a cue from Mantastic Crafter Patrick Murillo, I'm training in the art, and hoping to work my way up to something truly mantastic, all while trying to avoid what Murillo calls a "craftastrophe." Meeting...
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Charlie Hunter

By Chris ParkerSeptember 9, 2010
In a culture so besieged by the conflict between art and commerce, it's perhaps natural that the use of pop idioms is disparaged by the critical elite, anxious to protect their canon from dilution. Charlie Hunter has dodged such dismissive darts aimed at his eclectic jazz treatments, which have spanned...
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Toumani Diabaté at the Musical Instrument Museum

By Steve JansenAugust 18, 2010
Following last night's Toumani Diabaté concert at the Musical Instrument Museum, it's easy to see why so many name-power musicians have collaborated with the Malian kora player. (Those names, by the way, include Björk, Taj Mahal, and Herbie Hancock.) The first and only kora player to win a Grammy Award...
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Five Fugly Women’s Summer Fashions

By James KingAugust 20, 2010
Given: Clothing, for a dude, serves one purpose when placed on a woman: to hide the things us men spend 99 percent of our time trying to see. It's a sick game you ladies seem hell-bent on playing. In other words, guys shouldn't give a shit about women's clothes because...
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A Perfect Circle Stuns Sold-Out Crowd at Marquee Theatre

By Nicki EscuderoNovember 5, 2010
It was a special night at Marquee Theatre last night, as A Perfect Circle played their first show in 6 years to a sold-out audience. It was their first concert of three, in which they'll be playing full albums each night. Last night, they played Mer de Noms in its...
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Christofer Drew and the Shout: Fans React

By Nicki EscuderoNovember 2, 2010
It looks like Christofer Drew has crushed the hearts of thousands of girls across the country.Since Up on the Sun last talked to Drew in this totally true interview (which Drew Tweeted himself), where he announced he's moving on from his current pop project Never Shout Never to form the...
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Please Illustratre

By Tricia ParkerMay 20, 2010
Popular images like Uncle Sam (with his bushy eyebrows and emphatic index finger) or the desperate cockroach screaming “Raid?!” have been burned into our collective American psyche. It’s funny to think that these images as well as album and book covers, comics, postage stamps, and billboards were once drawn or...
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Please Illustratre

By Tricia ParkerMay 13, 2010
Popular images like Uncle Sam (with his bushy eyebrows and emphatic index finger) or the desperate cockroach screaming “Raid?!” have been burned into our collective American psyche. It’s funny to think that these images as well as album and book covers, comics, postage stamps, and billboards were once drawn or...