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The Lost Abbey Mayan Apocalypse Is Upon Us

Beer: Mayan Apocalypse Judgment DayBrewery: The Lost Abbey Style: Quadrupel ABV: 10.5 percent Screw you, Mayans. I was SO ready for the apocalypse. I stocked up on canned goods and toilet paper. I spent months mapping out the best path to take after the skies rained down fire and turned...
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Excavating Heavy Metal’s Blues and Jazz Roots

"The blues was like that problem child that you may have had in the family. You was a little bit ashamed to let anybody see him, but you loved him. You just didn't know how other people would take it." --B.B. King "Metal confronts what we'd rather ignore. It celebrates...
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Five DIY Gifts for the Kitchen

In case you're not busy enough, or you've just had enough of the holiday shopping crowds, here are a few crafty things to supplement your gift-giving. Yes, it's stressful sometimes to make things yourself, but when you make things yourself you can be at home and most people appreciate your...
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Drunk Dial Wants to Take Over the Scottsdale EDM Scene

Steven "Slippe" Lueder and Jesse Hudson aren't lacking for ambition. The duo, who come together to create EDM bangers under the name Drunk Dial -- are quick to tout what makes their EDM different from most of what's out there. "The way I like to describe it is like, 'If...
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Joe Arpaio at 50.74 Percent; Maricopa County Has 34,450 Votes Left

Maricopa County Recorder Helen Purcell is reporting that, after today's count of outstanding ballots, 34,450 remain, 34,000 of them provisionals, and 450 of them earlies. See also: -Arizona's Vote Count vs. California's, and Maricopa County Has 66,550 Ballots Left "We have completed the verification of all of the provisional ballots,"...
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Seven Best Dance Nights in Greater Phoenix: 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. There's no better...
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Top Five Must-See Shows This Weekend in Phoenix

When people ask what kind of music I like, I'm tempted to say, "Good music." I understand the need for musical terminology, but there's really too much good stuff to limit what you listen to. It's a lesson Zero Zero teaches well. Nicole Laurenne and Michael Johnny Walker have the...
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Matthew Salenger on Urban Sprawl and The Individualocracy Project

In 2001, AZ DES reported that 40 percent of the Greater Metro Phoenix population changes every 5 years. This jarring statistic was the springboard for a series of projects undertaken by Matthew and Maria Salenger of colab studio culminating in their most recent endeavor, Individualocracy, which is up for funding...
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Top Five Must-See Shows This Week in Phoenix

The weekend is over, and it's back to the grind. You sit there despondent at your desk, visions of a wild weekend replaying your head, scenes from A Good Day to Die Hard -- which you caught a sick matinee showing of -- bouncing around your cranium. How can you...
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Eight Best Coffee Houses in Greater Phoenix

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. Need a jolt...
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Cook’s Tour

The role of fat-then-skinny diet spokesperson has drawn into its calorie-counting clutches such illustrious plus-size players as sex-tape stars, actresses in need of a career boost, and pop star royalty. Just off the top of our heads, we have Kirstie Alley, Jennifer Hudson, Kim Kardashian, and Carnie Wilson. Sometimes the...