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How into theater are you? We dare you to spring for the value-packed VIP pass to Phoenix Theatre's 15th annual Hormel New Works Festival. You won't merely get admission to four star-studded staged readings and An Evening of Short Plays and the results of the legendary and incredible 24-Hour Theatre...
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Phoenix Rapper Sar KAZum Says “F**K a Label”

When it comes to hip-hop, cadence is everything. Well, maybe not everything, but a rapper's flow is a damn big deal. Whether you're making a club banger or flexing your lyrical chops, delivery makes or breaks a jam. Phoenix emcee Sar KAZum knows this, so he looked to hip-hop heavyweights...
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TheRecordingArtist.com Remakes the Music Biz

Oh, foolish, foolish record industry! You could've saved yourself once — maybe twice over — if only you had you listened to forward-thinkers like Otto D'Agnolo. In 2005, the producer/owner of Chaton Recording Studios wrote a slim volume, The Music Business Is Burning Down, Thank God, in which he foreshadowed...
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Will.i.am’s Mars-Blasted Single is a Great Idea

See also: NASA's Curiosity Rover: Here's the Hi-Res, 360 Degree View of Mars See also: Our 10 Favorite Martian Songs in Honor of Curiosity My faith in humanity reached a new high when headlines concerning the Curiosity Rover flooded Facebook and Twitter. Were people really interested in science again, the...
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Nearly Naked Theatre’s Season Opener Disappoints

Nearly Naked Theatre has joined the fray and moved its curtain time from the more traditional 8 p.m. to a half-hour earlier, and therefore I — not having paid attention to these details — missed the first 15 minutes of Parallel Lives, its season opener. Which turned out not to...
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Russell Pearce Skunked by Bob Worsley in LD 25 Republican Primary

See also: Russell Pearce's Ruin Caused in Part by Citizens for a Better ArizonaSee also: Russell Pearce at RockinRRanch and Lester Pearce Insults All of Maricopa CountySee also: Russell Pearce Can't Shake His Ties to Neo-Nazi J.T. ReadySee also: Russell Pearce's Bile Gone from Public Life for GoodSee also: Russell...
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Colin Marston of Dysrhythmia Discusses Test of Submission

When he's not playing music with a trove of inventive New York metal bands or sitting in the studio recording other such acts, guitarist and recording engineer Colin Marston is probably sleeping or in the shower. In addition to various ambient projects and solo ventures, Marston currently plays bass in...
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Five Must-See Events This Week

We know, the beginning of the work week sucks. But if you take a quick look at the calendar, you'll see we're off to a pretty good week of art events, sports games, dance parties, and more. Here are our must-see events from now to the weekend... Monday, September 24:...
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Nine Ways To Actually Make Money As A Musician

Once again reminding us the record industry resembles the band on the Titanic playing as it sinks, Rolling Stone reported "9 Ways Musicians Actually Make Money Today." To be blunt, it's pretty stupid...
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How Pizza Flows Like Blood Through the Veins of America

It's easy to forget just how complicated the modern world is -- how the conveniences we enjoy are the result of a vast interlocking network of systems that create ease, comfort, and survival for us everyday. So it's nice that PBS put out an entire series devoted to showing us...
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Why the New Scary Found-Footage Movies Don’t Look Like Movies at All

Next week's Paranormal Activity 4 continues the story of an extended American family whose members own a lot of surveillance cameras, camcorders, smart phones, baby monitors, webcams, Talkboys, and other consumer electronic devices with which they record the haunting of their nice suburban tract homes by a terrifying demonic entity...
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10 Best Things I Ate in September

Oh, hey, hi there! September's officially in the books. Which means it's a perfect time to look back on all the great food I ate and share some of my favorites. There's a little of everything here -- new restaurants, reviewed restaurants, and places I've popped into just because. It's...
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Paul Penzone Can Beat Arpaio, If He Turns Up the Heat

Former Phoenix police sergeant and onetime Silent Witness frontman Paul Penzone rarely shows any doubt that he will be successful in his bid to deny Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio an unprecedented sixth term in office. He sometimes begins sentences with the phrase, "After I'm elected," and Penzone, 45, has...