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Top 5 Things to Do in Metro Phoenix This Week

Phoenix, we planned your week. Here's how to spend it -- from Independence Day bashes and educational exhibits to pub crawls and live comedy. "Great Balls of Fire: Comets, Meteors, Asteroids" @ Lowell Observatory While most Phoenicians are loading up on little packages of cardboard and gunpowder to express the...
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Tasting Dunkin’ Donuts’ New Donut Breakfast Sandwich

The Guilty Pleasure (loosely speaking): Donut Breakfast Sandwich Where to Get It: Dunkin' Donuts, locations Valleywide Price: $3.50 (Give or take, depending on location) What it Really Costs: Oh, where to begin... Quick-service chains are on to writers like me. There's an easy way to garner media buzz: Take items...
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Lunch Under $10 at Bragg’s Factory Diner in Phoenix

Phoenix is just a few hip vegan restaurants and bakeries away from being officially cool. We were so excited when Bragg's Factory Diner opened for breakfast and lunch off Grand Avenue in downtown Phoenix because it touts a fully vegetarian and mostly vegan menu. Plus, we heard about the vegan...
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Extreme Honeybee Losses Could Threaten U.S. Food Supply

Pesticides, drought, and a dwindling food supply -- just some of the possible reasons for the loss of nearly one-third of the country's honeybee colonies last winter. Living in Arizona, where Africanized honeybees recently stung a man to death, we might be inclined to celebrate. See also: - Emily Brown,...
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How Friends Illustrates the Depressing Insularity of Our Lives

Friends ended less than a decade ago, but it's already a relic of a bygone era — a critically respected network sitcom that enjoyed massive ratings. That's the central irony of the Must-See TV show's legacy: It was one of the last programs to enjoy a national audience before cable...
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Study Concludes: Kids Today Are Musically Spoiled Rotten

When it comes to music, do kids today have it better or worse than the generations before them? I decided to do some research into the matter. By "research," I mean I asked my teenagers some questions, and then compared their answers to my opinions. Around here, we call that...
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The Torch Theatre Is All About Community — and Fun

I'm standing out front of the Torch Theatre — an improv space in downtown Phoenix — on a recent Saturday night, asking the performers how improv has impacted their lives. I feel like I'm getting two shows for the price of one. The first was the one I just watched...
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Why Cinco de Mayo Is No Holiday in Minervaland

Dear 5th of May: We were never together and I never cared about you, but now we're officially over; you were, after all, never that important to me when I lived in Mexico. It's not like you have ever been a national holiday celebrated with closed banks and schools, paper...