On Saturday, March 7th, Grow Phoenix hosted its first-ever Grow Your Own Food Summit. The symposium, which featured talks from local garden experts, was appealing to both seasoned gardeners and novices alike. The topics explored were as diverse as the audience, and included seed saving tips, gardening philosophy, and information...
Search results for: results
Showing 4335 - 4356 of 13754Use quotes to search for a phrase or name: "toy story", or "brooklyn bridge".
A new Pew Research Center survey shows a serious disconnect between what scientists and the public believe about nuclear energy and climate change. Members of the public generally don't believe climate change is man-made, as scientists do, the poll showed. This is what the news media focused on when the...
Last year, the press and marijuana-legalization opponents gave a lot of attention to a study suggesting that daily marijuana causes abnormalities in the brain. New research, reportedly using better techniques, indicates that claim and other reports of cannabis-caused changes to brain structure simply aren't true. The authors of the new...
No matter how you end up feeling about it, there sure is a lot of movie in Mommy, Xavier Dolan's exuberant melodrama about an emotional firecracker of a teenager who, after being kicked out of a specialized school for setting the cafeteria on fire, goes home to live with his...
Vex is one of those bands that commands attention whenever they hit the stage. Fitting, since their name is the very definition of evoking mystery and discussion. It's also defined as changing or "shaking up" the arrangement or position of something, and that's something Vex is all about. The four...
We see very little from local playwrights, a rare breed whose work is usually relegated to workshop productions before being tucked away forever. Richard Warren is one among a very few exceptions, at least lately. Last season, a staged reading of Warren's Revocable Trust received a lot of attention. His...
advertisement
The world is a terrible place. That's the uncompromising truth with which Tina Fey and Robert Carlock begin Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix), their follow-up to the under-seen but culturally monumental 30 Rock. The very first scenes of Unbreakable's first season, which will be released in its binge-able entirety on March...
I have a hard time believing that the immigrants we see at Home Depot are the best Mexico has to offer. Why can't we entice more of the cream of the crop of Mexicans to come up north? (Mexico has the richest man in the world, so someone has to...
What happens in the studio shouldn't always stay in the studio. Studio Visit is a weekly series that profiles artists in their studios. We ask them questions, they provide answers, and then we have a nice discussion about their work. This week: Erika Lynne Hanson, assistant professor of Fibers and...
If you missed it last week, we created a new month: Febrewery. Don't let the delightful syntax fool you -- Febrewery is a serious time, made for sincere and open-hearted visitation of the Valley's newest purveyors of beer. For week two, we're taking a quick drive up to the Northeast...
If a 2016 presidential candidate wants the Latino vote, he or she will have to support President Obama's executive order on immigration. That's according to a nationwide poll released by several Latino voter-outreach groups, which asked Latino voters whether they would support Hillary Clinton if she pledged to continue Obama's...
A Democratic state representative is proposing mandatory body cameras on every police officer in the state, plus external reviews of any police shootings. Representative Reginald Bolding, who represents parts of Phoenix, announced the legislation yesterday in response to constituent concerns about police shootings in Arizona and elsewhere. "After having conversations...
advertisement
The Spot: The Beverly 7018 East Main Street, Scottsdale 480-889-5580 www.thebeverly.us The Hours: Happy Hour Monday through Friday 4 to 7 p.m. Perfect for: A quiet happy hour with someone who's really hungry but doesn't have much knowledge of craft cocktails Interior: If you're familiar with the space that used...
There is no greater pleasure in life than waking up early on a cool Phoenix morning, walking around on a mountain for a few hours, eating your weight in breakfast food, and then taking a long, delicious nap. Here are a few awesome breakfast spots, near some of our favorite...
In southern Arizona's Second Congressional District, Republican Martha McSally has claimed victory over Democratic Congressman Ron Barber, as a count of all the ballots has put McSally up 161 votes on Barber. "All ballots are now counted and the voters have made their choice," McSally said in a statement. "We...
Arizona's Democratic lawmakers received a bizarre e-mail from the College Republicans at Arizona State University at 2:58 a.m. Monday morning. The purpose of the e-mail from College Republicans VP James Malone isn't really clear, but it's generally insulting and seems to be asking for money for the club to attend...
Angela Ellsworth is nothing short of an art celebrity here in Phoenix. She's represented by Lisa Sette Gallery and is associate professor of Intermedia at Arizona State University, where The Museum of Walking (MoW), one of her current projects with Steve Yazzie, is based. Along with the launching of MoW...
Chef Brian Webb and restaurateur Joseph Aguayo have made names for themselves as adventurous food pioneers. Aguayo brought bold, affordable Mexican fare to downtown in 2010 with his popular Verde, which closed after just seven months. Webb, who previously worked at Pointe South Mountain Resort in Phoenix, took the lead...
advertisement
If you're one of millions of Americans who rely on a decrepit old office coffee pot to deliver your daily caffeine, you're in luck. Drew Scharnitzke, Director of Education at Cartel Coffee Lab, has shared some tips for making the most of your Mr. Coffee...
Every Wednesday is Heritage Hump Day! That's because every Wednesday from now to the end of the year or before someone really big stops us, Heritage Hump Records (a temporary subsidiary of Onus Records) and New Times will be bringing you a limited edition collector's item of a much beloved...
All evidence indicates that the hacker group calling themselves the Cyber Caliphate are amateurs. Their takedown of the U.S. military's Central Command's Twitter and YouTube accounts on Monday, followed by threats, leaked documents, only seemed to prove that the "jihadists" in question don't even know their own name. Oh, but...
An Arizona aid worker who spent the past 18 months as a hostage of the Islamic State in Syria is dead, the 26-year-old's family said today. "We are heartbroken to share that we've received confirmation that Kayla Jean Mueller has lost her life," Mueller's parents, Carl and Marsha, and her...