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Silver Linings Playbook and Dinner at Legends Sports Bar

While a jumbo tub of hot buttered popcorn is one of our most frequently indulged guilty pleasures, we think a good movie deserves a little better company than junk food. Try out our movie and meal pairings for yourself or feel free to suggest one of your own favorites in...
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NYPD Pizza Partners With Phoenix Ale Brewery for Exclusive Brew

What happens when a locally owned and operated New York pizza chain gets thirsty for more local? It partners with one of Arizona's newest craft breweries. See also: Best Beer Bar 2012 - The Hungry Monk 8 Beer Cocktails in Metro Phoenix In December, New York Pizza Department (NYPD Pizza),...
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Ken Bennett Says 342,936 Ballots Left, 215K from Maricopa County

Like the Beatles once crooned, "It's getting better all the time...." Both Maricopa County and the Arizona Secretary of State's Office updated their elections results this afternoon, and the number of remaining ballots is declining at a steady pace. SOS Ken Bennett reported that statewide 342,936 early and provisional ballots...
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In Defense of New Girl (Hear Us Out . . .)

Depending on your perspective, Zooey Deschanel is either the cutest, funniest, most adorable little retro-kookster on Earth, or she's an irritating try-hard with zero comedy chops. The only thing the world seems able to universally agree on is that Deschanel has nice bangs. As such, her sitcom — New Girl,...
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8 Best Neighborhood Breakfast Spots: Best of Phoenix 2012

We've spent the last year in the laboratory putting Phoenix under the microscope to reveal hundreds of specimens of the best culture, outdoor adventures, shopping, dining, and nightlife the city has to offer. And we're finally ready to publish our results. Nerd alert! Now presenting Scientific Phoenix. See Also: -...
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Ask a Mexican on Jonny Chingas

In 1983 or 1984, I was walking home from work down Haight Street in San Francisco one evening and stopped into Watusi Records to look through the dollar cutout bin. I flipped through it for a bit and then stopped dead when I saw the Jonny Chingas Pachuco LP. I looked...
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Director Dave Grohl, Rockers Toast L.A.’s Sound City

Here's something you don't get to say too often: It's a shame when Paul McCartney turns up. Before McCartney arrives, rasping, puppy-eyed, and eager to have a go at the hot new grunge sound of 1993, Dave Grohl's Sound City is an exciting, sometime illuminating documentary about how a squad...
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8 Best Neighborhood Happy Hours: Best of Phoenix 2012

We've spent the last year in the laboratory putting Phoenix under the microscope to reveal hundreds of specimens of the best culture, outdoor adventures, shopping, dining, and nightlife the city has to offer. And we're finally ready to publish our results. Nerd alert! Now presenting Scientific Phoenix. See Also: -...
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Not Fade Away Lays Bare David Chase’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Heart

Rock and roll proves the coming-of-age crucible in Not Fade Away, Sopranos creator David Chase's semiautobiographical feature debut of shaggy hair, shagadelic beauties, and the joy and sorrow wrought from chasing, and failing to achieve, one's dreams. Chase's tale of showbiz striving has, in its basic form, been told before:...
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Eric Bibb and Habib Koité, Musical Instrument Museum, 2/11/13

Eric Bibb and Habib Koité @ Musical Instrument Museum|2/11/13The distance between Memphis, Tennessee, and Bamako, Mali, West Africa, is geographically large, but last night that distance in musical terms was no more than the three feet separating Eric Bibb and Habib Koité on the Musical Instrument Museum stage...
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(Nearly) Four Minutes In Chinese Food Porn Heaven

The news often reports on how scary or hazardous eating in China seems to be. Adulterated milk sickens babies, rival restaurants poison the eggplant, that sort of thing. In light of all of that people may ask why anyone even bothers going to China for the expressed purpose of eating...