Tempe’s Brick and Barley finally got its big moment on national television this past weekend. The latest episode of Spike TV’s reality show Bar Rescue focused on the local spot and its transformation from a badass biker joint and lowbrow haven into a more upscale neighborhood establishment. Or in the...
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This Friday the summer movie blockbuster season kicks into full swing with the release of Iron Man 2. Yes, there will be plenty of explosions, CGI special effects, sequels and remakes to last eager movie goers for the next few months.But just in case you want to skip the long...
During the past seven years, decker. has been recording music quite clearly drawn from the very land of the Southwest itself, from all that is comforting, eerie, haunting, healing, harsh, and beautiful about it, as though he and his partners are able to somehow evoke the very taste of Arizona...
The heat is on for 15 designers who debuted looks at Phoenix Fashion Week's 2016 emerging designer launch event Livewire in Scottsdale on the evening of June 9. Each brand showed one look from a forthcoming collection that will debut during Phoenix Fashion Week proper at Talking Stick Resort from...
Late last year, before Wyves released their debut album, Spoils Of War, lead singer Corey Gloden asked me what song I would pick for their single other than "Bitch Has Got Problems." I didn't even have to think about it, because although I had been waiting for years for a recorded...
Mitchell Hillman listens to more local music than just about anyone in the Valley. He presents his picks for best new local music in his column, Right Hear, Right Now. The Breaking Pattern - "Something/Anything" I was beginning to wonder if The Breaking Pattern were going to turn ever song...
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Supporters of Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders will have to suck it up. There will be no do-over of Arizona's disastrous Presidential Preference Election. Following two days of testimony this week, a Maricopa County Superior Court judge booted a lawsuit claiming fraud, illegal voting and other improprieties in the contest,...
Alan Vega died peacefully this weekend in his sleep. It was a sad end to a man who fronted the pioneering proto-punk combo Suicide. Alan Vega, along with the likes of Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, revolutionized what a lead singer could get away with, far beyond, say the affectation...
Two donors responded with significant gifts after Arizona Theatre Company's recent announcement that it would need to raise $2 million by Friday, July 1, to stay afloat. The deadline for meeting its $2 million goal has been pushed back to Friday, July 15. Mike Kasser, president of the Tucson-based international real-estate...
The Mesa Police Department has released findings from a months-long project on community engagement, just in time to buoy public confidence in the agency. With one of its officers facing trial for the January 18 killing of an unarmed man, the agency is looking ahead. On Tuesday, in a conference...
For all those Arizonans out there worried about voter suppression during the presidential preference vote, rest assured that a local activist with a history of taking on problematic elections is trying to get to the bottom of what happened here. John Brakey, co-founder of AUDIT-AZ (Americans United for Democracy, Integrity,...
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix's creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we're taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 12. Amber Robins. Amber...
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Heath Fogg should be upset that his band’s touring van has broken down on a few Fridays back en route to the Panorama NYC festival at Randall’s Island Park his band is set to headline. Dealing with NYC traffic can be more than a bit trifling for even the most...
The Beer: Reissdorf Kolsch The Brewery: Reissdorf Brauerei, Koln, Germany The Stats: 4.8% ABV, approximately 25 IBU The History: Back in 1986, 24 of the main brewers of kolsch in Koln, Germany enacted a proclamation known as the Kolsch Konvention, which decrees that only beers produced within the city limits can officially use the...
The futuristic dystopia of the arty sci-fi romance Equals will be familiar to anyone who’s seen the likes of Gattaca, The Island or THX 1138. It’s a cool, rational, lifeless world, blanketed in whites and grays and blues, and peopled with unfeeling faces — a world whose citizens will express...
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Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix's creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we're taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 28. Kelsey Pinckney. Kelsey...
Online petitioners are demanding that a local Catholic school teacher be removed from the classroom for what they call "racist and sexist hate speech." The petition, which has garnered more than 2,500 signatures (and counting) over the past couple of days, alleges that an instructor at Phoenix's Xavier College Preparatory,...
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Delusion is a powerful force. After all, life is often bleak — and obsessively pondering that bleakness can incapacitate one's ability to endure. Take this idea that rolls around every four years among local Democrats — and, often, folks who don't have to live here — that this political cycle...
New evidence shows that a few weeks before a teenager held in solitary confinement at Perryville Prison died in what appears to be an act of suicide, the Arizona Department of Corrections had been specifically warned about her deteriorating mental health and notified that the conditions in which she was...
About 50 people gathered in a crowded room at Greater Bethel A.M.E. Church on Wednesday morning to hear a 10-member panel of community and government leaders discuss why, in the aftermath of Arizona's March 22 presidential preference election, the U.S. Congress must restore the Voting Rights Act before the general...
Every other year, New Times puts the spotlight on Phoenix's creative forces — painters, dancers, designers, and actors. Leading up to the release of Best of Phoenix, we're taking a closer look at 100 more. Welcome to the 2016 edition of 100 Creatives. Up today is 31. Amy Robinson. Life...