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Arizona Beer Week – Strong Beer Festival

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...
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Lawsuit: Recycling Company Trucked Cans to California for Unfair Profit

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...
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Hells Angels Members Shot, One Killed in Phoenix

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...
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DOJ Caves on Arpaio’s Abuse of Power, Again

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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David Emitt Adams and Alchemy Studio Offer Summer Photography Workshop in Italy

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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Oneohtrix Point Never

Artist Daniel Lopatin, better known as Oneohtrix Point Never, is truly a 21st century creative. While his palette isn't particularly original, his vision is strikingly so. Rather than hiding behind subterfuge masquerading as originality like so many of today's songwriters, Lopatin opts for a clever aural melange, leaning heavily on...
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Kurt Cobain Is Honored in the Stunning Montage of Heck

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,...
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Five Reasons to Enter the Silly, Sad World of Netflix’s BoJack Horseman

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,...
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Arizona Government Slammed in 2015 Environmental Report Card

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...
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10 Iconic Metro Phoenix Houses

Maybe Phoenix doesn't have that one skyscraper that rises above the rest like the Empire State Building and, sure, stucco abounds, but there are plenty of gems by big-name architects who found inspiration in the desert.  These archetypal homes around the Valley, either built by our most notable architects or...
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Ryan Giroux’s Past Full of Violence and Meth Use

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...