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Last Shot: A Concert Photographer’s Battle With Cancer

Lindsey BestAndrew Youssef [Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on Heard Mentality, the music blog of our sister paper OC Weekly. Longtime concert photographer Andrew Youssef found out almost two years ago that he had Stage IV Colon Cancer. In that time, he has continued to shoot tons of music...
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The Myth of the “90 Percent” Support for Failed Background Check Bill

We can't tell you precisely why several U.S. senators, including Jeff "Pond Scum" Flake, voted against a bill aimed at expanding background checks for gun purchases. Sure, the powerful NRA likely had some influence. But how could anyone vote against something that 90 percent of Americans want? One possible answer...
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Are Out-of-Town Festivals Worth the Hassle?

Music festivals have been around for decades, and they're only becoming more popular. Each year, millions of fans fly around the world to attend more than 270 fests of various genres in the United States alone. They aren't a cheap experience, either: between festival tickets, travel, hotels and basics like...
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Paramore – Comerica Theatre – April 29, 2013

ParamoreComerica TheatreApril 29, 2013 After losing two founding members, Paramore made a show of their new self-confidence Monday night at Comerica Theatre, standing in front of a giant backdrop displaying nothing but three marks. It's been almost three years since Paramore last hit up the Valley, but at their show...
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Phoenix Comicon Reveals 2013 Badge Art Winners

Attention Phoenix Comicon fanatics: While there's still more than three weeks left to go until the event itself -- 24 long, agonizing days to be exact -- its organizers offered up a tasty appetizer earlier today to help whet your appetites and make the time pass more quickly. This morning,...
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New Age Duo Blues Control Escapes From New York with Valley Tangents

Blues Control duo guitarist Russ Waterhouse and pianist Lea Cho travel the spaceways of indie rock on an undulating platform of psychedelia, electronic, jazz, prog, and new age conventions. The combined result is music that flows from blissful quiet to hypnotically droning to feedback-drenched loud, with any number of random...
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7 Things to Eat and Drink in Flagstaff

This time of year, conversations at Chow Bella staff meetings tend to turn to who's eaten what and where. With the summer travel season in full swing, we bring you Food Tours, our writers' suggestions of what to eat and drink out of town. Raise your hand if you've already...
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Arizona Diamondbacks Split First Two Games With San Francisco

Arizona Diamondbacks fans watching their team's battle against the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday evening may have felt a nagging sense of déjà vu sometime around the ninth inning. It's probably because the game was shaping up to be an exact repeat of how the defending World Series champs beat...
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Herberger Censorship Will Have Long-Term Impact

It's canceled. That's what a box office clerk told artist Ronnie Ray Mendez on Friday, August 30, when he arrived at Herberger Theater Center to pick up promotional postcards for the exhibition "Prime Example," a group show curated by local gallery owner (and longtime New Times contributor) Robrt Pela and...
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Riding High: Arizona’s Zero-Tolerance Stance on Pot and Driving

A couple of large mason jars full of green buds sit on the coffee table inside Tad Zaccard's west Mesa mobile home as he talks about his marijuana-DUI ticket. "I'm a grower," admits Zaccard, a 46-year-old nutrition adviser who works for a local hospital. As one of the state's 38,000...
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The Five Worst Garden Decorating Trends Found on Pinterest

With gardening season getting into full swing, Pinterest has exploded with ideas on how to personalize your very own modern provincial urban organic Tuscan-inspired garden (oof). Pinners seem to the think the best way to achieve this is to fill the garden with extraneous weird shit under the guise of...