Has selfie culture officially gone batshit? Oxford Dictionaries named "selfie" the word of the year in 2013 (it narrowly beat out "twerk" and "binge-watch") and anyone who goes to concerts sees audience members spending most of the show shooting themselves. Now a marketing firm called 3d Public Relations is asking...
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People in Phoenix don't take off many days from work compared to the rest of the country, according to research.TriNet, a national HR company, compared the paid time off of the more than 218,000 workers employed by its clients, to see which regions where workers took more or less time...
Ah, the thesis. It's the bane of a soon-to-be college graduate's existence, falling just behind the sad economy and the poor job market as the top reason to just never ever reach graduation...
Among the first bills submitted this legislative session is a proposal from a trio of Republicans to create a drug-testing program for people seeking unemployment insurance.Perhaps the most important part of the legislation from Representatives Phil Lovas and David Livingston and Senator Judy Burges is that it wouldn't apply to...
A wise man — or, more precisely, a wiseass trucker named Jack Burton — once opined that "it’s all in the reflexes." Few actors have had better ones than Kurt Russell, who makes a welcome return to theaters this weekend in The Art of the Steal. Having been largely MIA...
When we're not busy sifting through the Internet figuring out which state universities are the sexiest or which has the hottest college girls, we're looking for the important data, the hard-hitting, state-by-state statistics that make our countless wasted hours on the Internet totally worth it. Today, we bring you the...
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Starting eating right this year. And by right, we mean "only the best local stuff." There's a wide variety of great farm-to-table products and menu items, what follows is just a smattering of local goodness. If there's something on this list you haven't had, it's time to try or take...
If watching endless hours of Star Trek taught us anything -- other than how to proclaim "Qapla!" with the proper Klingon inflection -- it's that there's infinite diversity in infinite combinations. It's an axiom that's most definitely apropos to the music world, whereby mixing and matching different artists and performers...
The Lawrence Arms Pub Rock 2/14/14 It's safe to say that I had a better Valentine's Day than the majority of the Valley. Unlike most of you, I didn't have to deal with either setting sky-high expectations for a beau or sulking about being single -- I just got to...
Burning driver's licenses, defying DPS, and the arrest of Elmo and his radical stuffed animal buddies were the high points of the only game in town at the state Legislature's opening day on January 13. That game belonged, pigskin and all, to Citizens for a Better Arizona, the group that...
With last week's super-exciting, highly anticipated release of the Sin City 2 trailer, we got to thinking about great antiheroes in film over the years. Certainly Mickey Rourke's Marv comes to mind, along with most other characters in the film that aren't just-plain evil, but we've found 10 more of...
A study found that abuse of migrants by border authorities in this country is a "systemic problem."Or maybe we should say, another study came to that conclusion...
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To those not plugged into the deeper chasms of the musical underground, the idea of a noise musician most likely seems oxymoronic and bizarre. An easily understandable stance, given that noise is largely considered to be an undesirable sonic experience. However, over the course of decades, a sizable subsection of...
Being labeled as a genre's pioneer can be an exhausting role, sometimes allowing these once forward-thinking musicians an opportunity to rest on their laurels. For Blake Miller, the frontman and lynchpin to Los Angeles' dance-punk act Moving Units, rest isn't an option. Not just content with working under Moving Units'...
Many bartenders I know have cultivated a certain sense of authority. It makes sense to me that it happens naturally. We bartenders are often seen as fonts of information, whether it's dating advice or a piece of trivia to settle a bet. Goodness knows I've certainly done quite a bit...
Like most rich folks, deep-pockets Scottsdale developer George Johnson is good at getting his way. Maybe not all the time, but often enough. Earlier this year, when Johnson wanted the right to convey water to an as-yet-undeveloped area of Florence, he got it from the Florence Town Council, saying he...
On an already long list of distinctions, Skinny Puppy recently added a new one, and not one that makes the pioneering industrial band very proud: The U.S. government has used the band's music as a torture device. "We heard through a reliable grapevine that our music was being used in...
I'm going to let you in on a little secret: northern Mexican food consists of more than just carne asada and bacon wrapped hot dogs. Don't get me wrong, I cherish both, but I also cherish the multitude of other foods that make up the rich culinary traditions of northern...
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From time to time, Chow Bella's contributors challenge one another to a showdown: Make the best dish you can, using one common ingredient. This time (naturally), it was pumpkin. For the next few weeks, we'll be sharing the results, and at the end, we'll let you know who won. Today:...
More than a decade ago -- but not very much more -- the area of Roosevelt Street that runs between Seventh Avenue and 16th Street was known as just that: a street. The name that now defines the arts district along that bisector, more specifically from Third Avenue to Seventh...
The oven-like heat of the late-May afternoon stunned the young Seattle man when he stepped outside of his car. In the parking lot of the Glendale motel, Eric Fernandes, 23, put his hand near the grill of his red Pontiac Grand Prix. "Dad, I think the car's overheating," he blurted...
Jake Owen Coors Light Birds Nest at Waste Management Phoenix Open 1/30/14 Country music fans definitely know a thing or two about having a good time -- and Thursday night's concert by Jake Owen inside the Coors Light Birds Nest at the Waste Management Phoenix Open was no exception. Everyone...