Jimbo Reid is pissed off. He's mad that there aren't any "cute chicks" today in Jobot, a coffee shop in an old house on Fifth Street. He's angry that the guy he's talking to on Jobot's cracked front porch keeps asking him about gentrification. He's fuming because the latte he...
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Misha Mendicino Designs was named emerging designer of the year on Saturday, October 4, at Phoenix Fashion Week 2014 at Talking Stick Resort. Based in Phoenix, the brand creates breezy resort wear often printed with elephants. The label donates a portion of its sales to David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to...
Forget the starlight, star bright -- you can actually see a meteor shower tomorrow night. The Perseid meteor shower, named for its origin in the Perseus constellation, is an annual night-sky spectacle appearing every summer when the Earth passes by the Swift-Tuttle Comet. This week the shower is expected to...
In a festive and history-making scene, some of the first legal same-sex weddings in Arizona took place today next to a government building in downtown Phoenix. The small plaza at 6th Avenue and Jackson Street east of the Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court Customer Service Center is normally...
You might be sick to death of people claiming to be gluten intolerant, but people with celiac disease were pretty sick (in a real way) of lax labeling for gluten free products on supermarket shelves. Well, that all changed last week when the FDA updated their standards for gluten free...
In case you missed any news action this week, we've got you covered. Here's our recap of the most-read news stories of the week:...
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Bryan Henry was sitting in a business management class at Burlington County College when a number with an Arizona area code popped up on his phone. It was 2012, and Henry had just arrived home in New Jersey after his second season as a Diamondbacks farm hand. He darted for...
Roosevelt Row is getting a facelift that's 10 years in the making. The downtown Phoenix arts district began what is estimated to be a nine-month construction project on Monday, June 9. The project, which is result of joint efforts by the Roosevelt Row CDC and the City of Phoenix, aims...
On Election Night, Public Policy Polling released a survey of Arizona voters revealing that a general election race between Republican gubernatorial nominee Doug Ducey and the Democrats' Fred DuVal would be even matched -- at least in the beginning. It gives hope to Democrats trying to gain leverage in a...
I am not a hippy. I have reusable grocery bags, but I never remember to bring them with me. I recycle, sure, but only because I feel bad about the amount of plastic water bottles I use. I hate patchouli oil, lavender-scented anything, and I refuse to pull coconut oil...
The crowd of Ruben Gallego supporters gathered at Club Downtown is jazzed after Gallego's wife, Phoenix Councilwoman Kate Gallego, announced that Mary Rose Wilcox "graciously" phoned her husband and conceded the seat for Arizona's 7th Congressional District. When Gallego came on stage, his supporters chanted his name. And during his...
An ex-state trooper who was fired in 2009 after a rocky affair with the state Department of Public Safety director's daughter is running for Maricopa County Justice of the Peace. Candidate Geoffrey Jacobs is seeking the position in the northwest Valley's Hassayampa district court, one of 26 county Justice Courts...
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The burning question has always been: What would Jimi Hendrix be doing now if he were still alive? Shortly before passing away at age 27, Hendrix was considering a move away from rock 'n' roll psychedelia to explore aspects of jazz and blues. He'd frequently been jamming with progressive jazz...
Editor's note: Since Oct. 6, 2012 (the 50th anniversary of the release of the Beatles' debut single "Love Me Do," we've been on a half-century celebration cycle in which we are scheduled to relive every Beatles innovation, every release of the Beatles' landmark career in real time, right until the...
An insidious ad campaign in key Republican races "depressed" Arizona Democratic voters in order to keep them at home on Tuesday, says losing candidate Terry Goddard. We ran into Goddard and Sandra Kennedy at Phoenix's Giant Coffee this morning and stole some of their time for a few election post-mortem...
In a city progressively known internationally for its downtown's mural art, arguably the oldest surviving murals in downtown (along with the building housing them) are now threatened with imminent destruction. So reads the opening salvo of a petition crafted by a trio of Phoenix residents hoping to preserve the building...
Now just four weeks away from the primary election, the latest poll of Republican voters shows half are undecided on a candidate for governor.Of the Republicans who have made up their minds, former GoDaddy executive Christine Jones is the leader with 18 percent, followed by Treasurer Doug Ducey at 16...
Righteous rage fills the air as a young African-American demonstrator yells through his bullhorn. "We are fed up!" cries Jarvis Johnson, his face filled with emotion. "We are done! We want justice, and we want it now!" Johnson's walking back and forth in the middle of the intersection of Seventh...
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This week, Bentley Gallery added a new artist to their already impressive roster. Jonathan Cross is a recent MFA graduate from ASU, who spent time working as a studio assistant to Don Reitz, another ceramicist represented by Bentley. Cross joins the ranks of popular sculptors Jun Kaneko and James Marshall,...
Primary day 2014 was a beautiful day for moderation in Arizona politics. A perfect day? Hardly, but disappointments in the Republican field offer opportunities for Arizona Democrats in the general election. Former Mesa Mayor Scott Smith's second-place finish to state Treasurer Doug Ducey was anticipated, though the severity of the...
Beer: Fresh Magic Brewery: Huss Brewing Co. Style: American-style Pale Ale ABV: 5.7 percent A hop picked right off the vine is a beautiful thing -- conical, verdant, wonderfully fragrant. But a vast majority of the hops brewers use to make beer don't look like this. While prized for their...
Stop us if you've heard this one before: KUKQ is dead and its demise is due, in part, to the influence of a bigger and more powerful local alternative radio station. No, this is not a rerun from the mid-1990s. And by the way, we're referring to both KUKQs --...