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Downtown’s First Friday (March 2)

Art walks are more often about people watching and shenanigans and less about the actual art. We're here to guide you through both. Presenting our very own Field Guide -- an evolving guide to art walks around town.From time to time, we'll introduce some of our favorite spots and dish out some...
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A Hero, in 3.2 Million Dots

For a year (he estimates about 210 hours of work time, at 4.25 dots per second), Endara stippled with his Sakura Pigma Micron pen on a plain piece of paper. The result is "Hero", which is one of Endara's few pieces of artwork -- mostly, he says, because stippling takes so...
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Whit Stillman Returns Triumphant with Damsels in Distress

Whit Stillman made a name for himself making semiautobiographical, deadpan, highly literate comedies about the night lives of idle heirs (his 1990 Oscar-nominated debut Metropolitan), privileged Americans abroad (Barcelona, 1994), and resilient yuppies in decadent early '80s Manhattan (The Last Days of Disco, 1998). But for more than a decade,...
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Bob Carey on Art, Photography, and “The Tutu Project”

From the second-story patio of Phoenix College's art building in downtown Phoenix, photographer Bob Carey can point to the hospital where he was born, the neighborhood where he grew up, and the three or four houses he lived in after high school and college. The Phoenix native moved to New York in...
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Is Joe Arpaio Trying to Intimidate Opponent Mike Stauffer?

The Maricopa County Sheriff's Office admitted yesterday that it asked the Arizona Attorney General's Office to "contact" Scottsdale Lieutenant Mike Stauffer -- Sheriff Joe Arpaio's opponent in this year's election -- and ask him about "inside information" he received about the December death of Marty Atencio in one of Arpaio's...
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Pusha T @ Clubhouse Music Venue

The recent hiatus of Virginia rap duo Clipse — which comprises brothers Pusha T and Malice, whose Neptunes-produced 2002 debut, Lord Willin', earned acclaim on the pop charts and Pitchfork alike — has resulted in very different paths for its two members. Pusha T appeared on Kanye West's My Dark...
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Odell Footprint RegionAle

​Beer: Footprint RegionAleBrewery: Odell Brewing Co.Style: American Strong AleABV: 9.5 percentPeople like to say it's not about where you're from, but rather where you're going. Weird thing about beer is, where you're going in a way becomes where you're from. Choices of where to distribute are not made lightly --...
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Olivia Cortes Receives 252 Votes in Russell Pearce Recall Election

Ousted state Senate President Russell Pearce's bag of filthy campaign tricks didn't quite have the impact he'd probably hoped -- as evident from the results of last night's unprecedented recall election.As it stands right now (official results aren't expected until later this week), Pearce received 9,188 votes, or 45.25 percent...
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Theatre Artists Studio’s The Unexpected Man Is Early, “Fun” Reza

Don't worry -- the characters in The Unexpected Man are still both relatable and ridiculous. The two people are still trapped together for a finite period by social convention, driven like pack mules by their pride and insecurity. But it's just enough gentler, warmer, less pessimistic than playwright Yasmina Reza's...
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Conspire Losing Its Backyard Skate Ramp in Wake of Recent Lawsuit

There was some serious trickage taking place on the skate ramp behind Downtown's Conspire this past weekend as teenaged riders spent Saturday afternoon an evening unleashing ollies and grinds all over the structure while punk anthems played over a P.A.Sadly, it's probably last time the ramp will ever get used. Earlier...
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Six Signs that Pinterest Food Pins Are Destroying the World

Look away! Look away! Every day, I cringe. Every day, I gag. Every day on Pinterest is another opportunity to witness atrocious food pins, indications that our society is crumbling around its very foundation. True, I've scored some great ideas and recipes on the site, but more times than not,...
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Mitt Romney’s Fallen to Just Three Points Ahead in Arizona: Could Paul Babeu’s Scandal Sink Him in Sand Land?

Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads ex-U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum by a mere three percentage points as they and other Republican candidates speed toward Arizona's GOP presidential primary, just one week away. This, according to a survey just released by the North Carolina-based firm Public Policy Polling. PPP...
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Wanda Jackson, Andrew WK, Breaking News, and More Over the Weekend

Clubhouse Music Venue Owner Arrested Tempe Police Department dropped a major bombshell today when it announced the arrest of Eugenia L. Ruven, the owner of the Clubhouse Music Venue. As we reported earlier this afternoon, the 44-year-old (who also owns the adjacent Horse & Hound Sports Grill) was cited and...
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Death-Penalty Lawyers Are Making a Killing Off Maricopa Taxpayers

In early December 2010, Phoenix criminal-defense attorney Nathaniel Carr III submitted an invoice for payment to Maricopa County in the death-penalty case of Israel Naranjo. The invoice included a notation for November 17, 2010: "Florence interviews Willie and Adolph. We got trouble." Carr was referring to interviews with Naranjo's two...
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At 20, Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings Is Already a Hit

Despite the quick rise of his punk outfit Cloud Nothings through the blogosphere and the warm critical reception of the band's latest record, Attack on Memory, 20-year-old singer-songwriter Dylan Baldi remains calm. The big, black all-ages Xs drawn on his hands surely negate any ego-tripping. "Some cities on the West...