Within a week, Governor Doug Ducey is expected to say yay or nay to a proposal that would block the state from cooperating with the Affordable Care Act. Among other things, House Bill 2643 would prohibit Arizona from building a state-run healthcare exchange -- a move that some say could...
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The world’s oldest known fermented fruit-based beverage dates back 9,000 years. Beer is a newer creation, going back only 5,000 years to ancient Egypt, the result of an accidental pairing of grains, wild yeast, and water in a vessel subject to proper climatic conditions. Brewing is somewhat more precise these...
For years, Arizona recyclers have been making big bucks by shipping empty aluminum cans in trucks to California, a state with a lucrative, consumer-subsidized recycling program. Passing Arizona cans off as California cans is illegal in California, but not in Arizona, leading to a cottage industry of can-shipping that's destroying...
Anwar Newton still remembers the feeling he had his first time on stage: embarrassment. "I wrote down some stuff beforehand, but you realize very quickly that what you think is funny is actually really dumb and boring," he says. "I don't even remember what I said. My brain just locked...
Two members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club were shot while riding their motorcycles in Phoenix on Saturday night. One man died as a result of his injuries, while the other was hospitalized with serious injuries. The bikers apparently didn't see who fired the shots, police say. "We don't know...
Once again, the U.S. Department of Justice has disappointed us when it comes to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's abuses of power, this time with a Neville Chamberlain-esque settlement that the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors approved on Wednesday. The board unanimously agreed to settle on three areas of dispute in United...
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In the post-punk days of the early 1980s, the music world and press got sucked into the vacuum that was new wave and its futuristic synthesized beats. Artists who fell under this broad and eclectic new genre differentiated themselves as much by their futuristic fashion (non)sense as by their actual...
Sure, traveling to Tuscany even with just a cell phone camera will probably result in some photos that will, at the very least, make your Instagram followers a little jealous. But imagine traveling through the picturesque northwestern Italian landscape with an internationally recognized tintype artist. Join Phoenix-based photographer David Emitt...
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Charges have been reinstated against the owners of a Gilbert dog-boarding facility where more than 20 dogs died last year. However, the son and daughter-in-law of U.S. Senator Jeff Flake -- the caretakers of the facility at the time the air conditioning went out and led to the dogs' deaths...
A post-Wikipedia biographical documentary, Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck finds Brett Morgen constructing a feature-length collage of notebook entries, demo tapes, rehearsal footage, home movies, archival photos, and drawings and artwork by the late Nirvana frontman. It’s an impressive, comprehensive assemblage, designed to impart not a point-by-point historical account but,...
When a new spot opens in town, we can't wait to check it out — and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that...
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"I'm starting to get really nervous about the show," Wilco bassist John Stirratt says from Maine when asked if the band's booking agent was fired for scheduling an outdoor concert in July in the desert. "We've played in some pretty harsh environments, but I've had more people ask me about...
“Collective Dissent: The SMS Portfolios,” on view at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, is marked by a turbulent year in America: 1968. Along with the Cold War and conflicts in Vietnam, there was traumatic violence on U.S. soil. The assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, in...
Both the artist's interest in celebrity and his own eventual fame form a loose theme in "Warhol: Portraits," now in its third month at the Phoenix Art Museum. The traveling exhibition, which debuted in 2010 at Pittsburgh's Andy Warhol Museum, features nearly 200 works from Warhol's childhood and...
BoJack Horseman lurched out of the gate last year with a whole lotta animal puns and one uncomplicated thesis: Old sitcoms suck. An aggressively stupid and mawkish show from the late Eighties called Horsin’ Around, about an equine-human hybrid in Cosby sweaters who adopts three adorable orphans, made its star,...
The Arizona Chapter of the Sierra Club released its 21st annual Environmental Report Card for the state Legislature and governor, concluding that the two are "moving Arizona backwards, one bill at a time." The club gave all but one Republican legislator an F, and Governor Doug Ducey a D. At...
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of my mouth. It's an ongoing mission: to drink strange new beers. To seek out new brews from every civilization. To boldly drink what no man has drunk before. With apologies to Shatner, I’m stealing that mission statement from the starship Enterprise...
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Court records show that violence and meth use are constants throughout the life of Ryan Giroux, the man accused of shooting six people in Mesa, killing one, on Wednesday. After an arrest last year, Giroux's probation officer wrote to the court that Giroux "took it upon himself" to get mental-health...
Over the past five years, Slayer's world has been turned inside out. But proudly displaying what they’re made of has always been the band’s strong suit—2015 might just mark one of the most raw, visceral and vulnerable transitions for the band in its 30-plus year career so far. Touring extensively...
Note: Please see update on Friday's hearing below. Sheriff Joe Arpaio's former lawyer Tim Casey doesn't want to tell what he knows about Arpaio's contemptuous conduct in the ACLU's big racial profiling case Melendres v. Arpaio, so he's invoking attorney-client privilege to avoid subpoenas and discovery requests in the case...