From now until we publish the 2016 edition of Best of Phoenix, New Times is naming 100 Tastemakers — members of our local culinary community who help shape the way we eat, drink, and think about food in Phoenix. Some you'll know, and for others, it'll be a first introduction,...
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Nearly two years after Phoenix shut down two temporary facilities, the debate about whether the city needs a permanent low-demand homeless shelter remains unresolved.
Metro Phoenix tops the list for urban areas infested with creepy critters, a services-finding website says. Thumbtack.com is like an Angie's List competitor and one of the top websites in the country, hooking up Internet users with services like music lessons, home repair, and, of course, pest-control services. Unlike a...
Among Arizona's biggest cities, Phoenix, Tempe, and Tucson are doing the best job protecting the rights of the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender communities, according to a new report from the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. The nonprofit advocacy group, which puts out an annual index rating cities' LGBT policies on...
How funny, really, are dick pics? Millions of them must be snapped and shared each year, as inducement or harassment, celebration or shaming. Perhaps Harper's Index could tell us the tonnage of coal mined each year to power the transmission of American crotches. So when a dick pic turns up...
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Critics rarely receive love from filmmakers. Last year’s Best Picture Oscar winner, Birdman, featured a vengeful harpy of a theater reviewer (played by Lindsay Duncan) hellbent on annihilating a play before she’d even seen it. Birdman was joined in its release year by other unfair portraits of critics in Top...
Seated in the waiting room of his empty Phoenix office, defense attorney Kirk Nurmi appears beaten and battle weary. Since gaining notoriety defending convicted murderer Jodi Arias, Nurmi has lost 75 pounds, and his clothing drapes loosely on his deflated frame. Yet, at 6-foot-2 and still rotund, he remains an...
When Victoria was 15, her father took her to the Red Light District in Amsterdam. "Vicky," he said, pointing to the women dancing behind the glass of a shop window, "if you don't go to college, you'll end up like this." More than a decade later, Victoria sits in a...
Garth Brooks did my job for me Friday night when he took a moment toward the end of his set to talk to me about my concert review. Okay, I realize that sounds a little bit egotistical and far-fetched; I’ll clarify: He took a moment to address all of my...
I knew things had gone a little too smoothly on Thursday night, everything was like clockwork. With that in mind I was sure it would be the same case, but alas it was not. I approached the media check in with a smile and was very nearly scolded and told...
Ethan Misiewicz is throwing things into the canal. He came across his old Easter basket at the back of the coat closet this morning, and the only good use for stale jelly beans, he's decided, is pitching them into the lake. "But we don't got a lake," the 8-year-old explains...
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Simon Kunesh arrives at his physical therapy appointment hanging from his mother's neck, arms locked, swinging back and forth like a pendulum. She's prying at his fingers, trying to put him down, but he stubbornly has retracted his long, spindly legs and flexed his feet to avoid touching the floor...
After months of Phoenix and Maricopa County officials promising that the East Lot will remain open indefinitely, the asphalt parking lot that's served as a de facto overflow shelter for up to 400 men and women in downtown Phoenix is officially closing. "The East Lot's last night of providing low...
Watching Ultra Music Festival's idyllic official after-movies, you might get the impression that UMF is some kind of utopian music-based society where the young and beautiful run only in slow motion, where everyone is welcome and everything is pleasant. In some ways, this is true. You're more likely to have...
A ballot initiative to legalize recreational marijuana use in Arizona is going to be filed this afternoon. The campaign, backed by the Marijuana Policy Project, needs to gather about 150,000 signatures by June 2016 to get the issue on the ballot in November 2016...
Most of us can't imagine having a disease that tugs and tears at the very threads of who we are. When we wake up in the middle of the night with outlandish fears, we strike reassuring bargains with ourselves: If I lose my sight, I'll still have music. If I...
Arizona's home to the most political corruption in America. That's according to a survey of reporters nationwide, done by researchers at Harvard University's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics...
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Yo, you wanna smoke some weed? Chances are, this is the first thing you'll hear from HotRock SupaJoint once he walks through the door. This particular Saturday night, he's crashing through the gates of Chop N Wok, a Chinese takeout bar in North Scottsdale. The instant the tall, gangly rapper...
PACH and videographer Dennis Gilman join forces to help save Maria's arm. With Republicans in command of both houses of U.S. Congress determined to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and with the U.S. Supreme Court's recently taking a case that could send "participating insurers into an actuarial death-spiral," according to...
When William "Boomer" Baker lost his left index finger to a gun malfunction about a decade ago, he thought it was the end of his artistic career. Instead, it turned out to be just the life-changing event that he needed. "I used to collect guns. One time I was messing...
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