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10 Self-Tanner Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

Pool parties, BBQs, and long lake days means summer is just about here -- and with it come shorts and bikinis. Since we won't be ordering an at-home lipo kit anytime soon, getting a tan is the easiest way to look a few pounds lighter, reduce cellulite, and get more...
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Is Robin Thicke’s Banned YouTube Video Worth Fighting For?

Every so often, some group of well-meaning progressive bowdlerizers forces the ACLU to explain why it defends the right of the Ku Klux Klan (et al) to say ridiculous and offensive things, and the result is usually an argument that neither party enjoys having. Robin Thicke's new video, "Blurred Lines"...
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Schaefer’s Whining About Wine

Introducing "Schaefer," in which Eric Schaefer -- a local guy with a big (but discerning) appetite and a sense of humor to match -- takes on the Phoenix food scene. Last week, I professed my love of White Castle hamburgers, a food that sits on the lowest rung of the...
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Phoenix Film Festival Spotlight: Alev Aydin’s Lonely Boy

Everyone copes with tragedy differently. Actor Alev Aydin wrote Lonely Boy after experiencing the effects brain cancer had on his mother, which resulted in symptoms similar to schizophrenia. His film, in which he also plays the lead as Franky, explores the hardship of having that mental illness while trying to...
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Tongue Tied’s Daft Punk Tribute Party @ Apollo’s Lounge

Didja get your mitts on Daft Punk's new album, Random Access Memories, yet? If not, your slow ass is certainly in the minority, since damn near everyone's streamed or pirat — er, bought a copy of the just-released 13-track gem birthed from the robotic loins of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel...
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Human Doll Cloning: 3D Printing a Mini You Costs $1,300

There's plenty of reason to be wary of 3D printing technology -- what with the arrival of 3D printed gummy avatars, fetuses, and most terrifyingly guns. But a Japanese start-up is giving the whole world an entirely new reason to shudder. Human. Doll. Cloning. See Also: We're Doomed: Robot Therapists...
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A Look at Exonerations in Shaken Baby Syndrome Cases

Drayton Witt of Tucson spent 10 years behind bars after being convicted in 2002 of shaking to death his girlfriend's 4-month old son, Steven Holt.  And he likely would have served 10 more years for the murder of Steven had the Arizona Justice Project — along with retired British pediatric...
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Meth-Head Mom Allegedly Shot Up 5-Year-Old Kid With Meth

An admitted meth user's 5-year-old daughter tested positive for meth, after the girl complained about her mother sticking her with needles, police say.Jacqueline Trousdale, a 30-year-old Phoenix resident, was the subject of "several" ongoing Child Protective Services investigations, according to court documents obtained by New Times, which isn't exactly hard...