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Laura Hahnefeld and Chow Bella Up for National Journalism Awards

Last month, we were excited to report that Chow Bella won best opinion blog from the Arizona Press Club. Now results are starting to come in from some national writing contests -- and there's cause for more celebration. Food critic Laura Hahnefeld is a finalist in the Association of Food...
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Why Real Sex in Real Movies Never Quite Works

The new, semi-gritty indie About Cherry is all about a semi-reluctant slide into the porn industry, and it's also the first mainstream feature co-written by a busy porn actress, Lorelei Lee, otherwise famous for double penetrations and clothespin bondage. This shouldn't strike us very strange. Every screenwriter needs a day...
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Joe Arpaio Protesters Released From Custody

See Also: Joe Arpaio Protesters Arrested During Public Demonstration The four people claiming to be undocumented immigrants who were arrested Tuesday during a civil-disobedience protest against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio have been released from jail. While Arpaio was on the witness stand in the federal racial-profiling case, scores of...
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Rehab, Rhythm Room, 8/30/12

Rehab @ Rhythm Room| 8/30/12Not since bearded-era Jim Morrison have rotund drunks been celebrated with such crazed enthusiasm. Not that I could ever compare last night's Rehab show at The Rhythm Room to even the most spaced-out of Morrison's career and consider it fair. But I did learn a few...
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Still Joyously Disreputable, Raiders Comes to IMAX

The story goes that while filming in Tunisia in the summer of 1980, Steven Spielberg avoided the dysentery that afflicted most of the cast and crew of Raiders of the Lost Ark by holing up in his hotel room with a suitcase full of SpaghettiOs. Like most studio-approved behind-the-scenes errata,...
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Top Five Must-See Shows This Week

Yeah, yeah, yeah...we get it Mondays suck (we've read Garfield). But it means the start of a new week, which means a bunch of killer shows in and around Phoenix. And here are a few of the coolest, our top five must-see shows this week...
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AndyTalk: Sushi for Dessert

Whether it's a feint by a quarterback, an improvised musical riff, or a magic trick, everyone appreciates a good fake-out -- especially when the end result is a success. The first time I served sushi for dessert I had a goal. Actually, I had two goals: First, make a great...
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Anatomy of a Chocolate Chip Cookie with Brady Breese of Urban Cookies

See also: Mail Order Cookie Clash: Urban Cookies vs. Goosebumps See also: Urban Cookies (OllieCake) Wins Food Network's Cupcake Wars See also: Urban Cookies' Brady Breese: Caramelpalooza Candymakers When you're cooking, it's all about a dash of this and a splash of that. But baking is another matter, an exact...
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Torta Cubana Clash: La Tolteca vs. Los Reyes de la Torta

See Also: Hacienda El Bar-Ril: Central Phoenix Home of Diamond Tacos de Cabeza The torta just might be one of the most delicious sandwiches on the planet (okay, we haven't had all of the sandwiches on the planet and banh mis are really good too but, for the next five...
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Silver Medallion Steps Away from Hip-Hop With Road to Wonderland

Silver Medallion was very different four years ago. Back then duo, Oren J (Oren J. Schauble) and Carnegie (Abay Lattin) made party music about the ladies of Scottsdale. The two hip-hop heads mined electro sources like Chromeo, Spank Rock, and Santigold. Their first single, "Scottsdale," was as cynical as it...
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Disney’s Timothy Green Jerks Tears, Rates Jeers

"It's a hard world to be different in," says Cindy Green (Jennifer Garner) to her Pinterest/vision-board child Timothy (CJ Adams) while trying to explain why he must cover up the leaves that sprout on his legs. "Lots of people hate anything that's different." That hammer-to-nail, nutshelled life lesson is one...
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Hue Gourmet: Vietnamese Cuisine Fit for Royalty

Oddly enough, a Mesa mall food court is the only place in the Valley where one can say they've truly eaten the cuisine of a king — or in this case, an emperor. Here, at a small counter-service eatery, under the glow of fluorescent lights that illuminate shoppers, texting teens,...
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Arizona Diamondbacks Sweep Houston At Chase Field, Rockies Up Next

These days, the once-proud Houston Astros are more like a Triple-A minor league franchise than a bona fide big-league team. So when the `Stros came to town over the weekend, it was welcome news for the up-and-down Arizona Diamondbacks, who are (or should be) in desperation mode now as the...
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Tonsil Yeti, Rockbar Inc., 7/26/12

Tonsil Yeti Rockbar, Inc. Thursday, July 26, 2012 See also: Tonsil Yeti is In it To Win It, Dude A year ago, I got some scratchy, unlabeled demos in the mail from a band called Tonsil Yeti. I was confused, both by the band name and the untitled tracks, but...