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Crudo’s Pig Ears: Way Too Freaking Amazing For Your Dog

The Chef: Cullen Campbell The Restaurant: Crudo The Animal: Pig The Dish: Pig Ears Most of us think of pig ears as leathery chewables for the dog, not something we'd ever dream of eating ourselves. But they're showing up on local menus as bar snacks, and you know what? They're...
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Russell Pearce Can’t Shake His Ties to Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready

Disgraced, recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce's doomed comeback campaign wants voters to buy the line that he's all goodness and light these days, as if an entire career built on lies and hate never occurred. One of the latest flyers to hit the mailboxes of Republican voters in Legislative...
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Old Records Are Outselling New Ones for the First Time

By Chris Kornelis In the two decades since Nielsen Soundscan started to keep track of U.S. album sales in 1991, the company has seen the industry fold in half, digital sales catch up to physical, and vinyl mount a resurgence. But until last week, they'd never seen old records outsell...
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Paul Babeu Sticks It to Taxpayers and a Volunteer Rescue Team

Emily Decker stands on a narrow ledge more than 80 feet above the desert floor, clinging to the side of Flatiron Peak, a massive tower of rock in the Superstition Wilderness. She knows she's in trouble, and fear tingles through her body. Her boyfriend, John Wilkinson, hangs about 10 feet...
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The Five Craziest Ways Video Gamers Changed Gaming Forever

Video games are big, fun places where people get to pretend to do something they might never do in real life. This, of course, includes incredible sociopathic activity, obsessive devotion, and sometimes ingenuity that changes how future video games are played forever. Here are just five ways gamers have changed...
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Rob Zombie on His New Record, New Movie, and Why Metal Shows Need Girls

Rob Zombie isn't out to terrify you. He's out to blow your mind. He holds a number of titles: director, artist, musician, actor, writer, lover, and freak show. And everything he does is loaded up with theatrics, subtle intelligence, and aggression. Zombie is fresh off his August release Mondo Sex...
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Joe Arpaio’s Deputy Thinks Most Day-Laborers Are Undocumented

See also: Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Trial Begins, and, Yes, He's Guilty as Sin See also: Joe Arpaio Racial-Profiling Trial Draws Protestors' Calls for Justice on Opening Day See also: Joe Arpaio's Racial Profiling Case Costs County Close To $1 Million, So Far In the law-enforcement experience of Maricopa County...
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SOL Cocina’s New Brunch: Pick Your Friends Carefully

When a new spot opens in town, we can't wait to check it out -- and let you know our initial impressions, share a few photos, and dish about some menu items. First Taste, as the name implies, is not a full-blown review, but instead a peek inside restaurants that...
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Paula Deen to Import Italian Cooking Show, Renamed Food Chain

Variety reports that Paula Deen, the Queen of Cream, is shopping around a U.S. version of a popular Italian competitive-cooking show. Judging from the available clips, it looks like Chopped but with amateur cooks and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? lifelines. Deen's show will be called Food Chain, but...
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Product Review: Southern Comfort Bold Black Cherry

We never really had a problem with the original Southern Comfort. Sweet and interesting, the spiced liqueur served its purpose as the standard cola mixer, and even made its way into the occasional cocktail. Then they started coming out with new flavors, like lime and pepper, which confused us --...
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Ex-Police Chief’s Book Details Arpaio’s Negligence in El Mirage Cases

On November 2, 2007, career Phoenix cop Bill Louis was feted at a retirement ceremony in downtown Phoenix. Assistant Chief Louis was leaving the big-city agency after almost 31 years to join longtime PPD colleague Mike Frazier in El Mirage, the then-rapidly growing West Valley community near Luke Air Force...
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Top Phoenix Arts and Culture Stories of the Week

If Bob Ross were alive today, he'd be painting happy little trees all over the place in ecstatic fervor for all the arts and culture happenings in Phoenix. To help you see the forest for the trees, here's a recap of the top arts and culture stories of the week...
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DIY Spicy Watermelon Margaritas

I never knew how many different kinds of margaritas existed until Pinterest. Oh, man! It never ends... Margaritas are my favorite. And I'm not one of those girls who always has to drink sweet, fruity stuff, either -- but sometimes it's fun to experiment. A classic summer fruit collides with...
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Prog Flock

Just like the rave scene way back in the ‘90s, today's brand of dubstep may very well be a flash in the pan. With fiercely devoted adherents who pride themselves on being contrarian and excessively counter culture, dubstep is already suffering from it's own impositions, a finely edited curriculum of...
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5 Ways to Open a Bottle of Wine (Without a Corkscrew)

Welcome to Vine Geeks, where Brian Reeder and Pavle Milic of AZ Wine Merchants take the drinking game quite seriously. Pay attention -- you might just learn something. Many times, I've needed to crack a bottle of wine and found myself without the means to do so -- or so...