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Joe Arpaio’s Admission of Guilt after Meeting with DOJ

In spite of all of Sheriff Joe Arpaio's bluster, the claims of he and his subordinates that the U.S. Department of Justice's report on his racial-profiling ways is hogwash, and the use of that report by Arpaio's re-election campaign to raise money, Arpaio's office issued a statement yesterday after a...
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Left Hand Milk Stout Nitro

​Beer: Milk Stout NitroBrewery: Left Hand Brewing Co. Style: Milk StoutABV: 6 percent Greetings, fellow scientists! Beer may seem simple on the surface, but there's a fair amount of chemistry, physics and other magical disciplines involved in both the creation and serving of our favorite drink. The devoted scientists at...
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DanceMission at Madison Event Center, 2/24/12

DanceMission with 12th Planet and more Madison Event Center Friday, February 24 Not to be too dramatic, but I probably suffered some permanent hearing damage last night while watching 12th Planet. It would take a doctor to confirm (perhaps even Doctor P), but there's been a constant ringing in my...
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Class Reunion

For years, Holgas served as an artist residence, gallery, and hotspot for some for some of the areas most well known creative types. After the building, originally owned by local photographer Wayne Rainey, changed hands and got a facelift from local artist duo Matt Moore and Carrie Marill, Rainey invited...
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Downtown’s Roller Skate Shop SEVEN13SK8 Hangs Tight with Plans to Expand

Inside the ever-open door of SEVEN13SK8 in downtown Phoenix is a space home to quality roller skate parts, street-fashionable accessories, and abstract paintings by Kristine Brambilla. The local artist just finished the store's exterior mural (and a few others on the neighboring storefronts in the OPtic complex on Third and McKinley...
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NFL Hype Songs: Four Tracks Inspired by Football’s Final Four

This Sunday's NFL conference championships will determine which two teams will be headed to Super Bowl XVLI in Indianapolis on Sunday, February 5. Until then, the league's final four teams will be duking it out for a shot at football immortality when the San Francisco 49ers and New York Giants...
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Tempe’s Vektor Gets Some Metal Loving From NPR

Vektor​NPR has a way of simplifying complicated ideas for the layman, be they the financial crisis or the intricate web of Republican frontrunner intrigue. When it comes to their profile about Tempe's sci-fi thrash metal four piece Vektor, they kept things uncluttered and uncomplicated: "Vektor: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Fast."...
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Jerk Hut Delivers a Taste of Jamaica

If you have been to Jamaica or know something about its cuisine, then you are undoubtedly familiar with its most popular dish: jerk. Dating back to the island's earliest days, Christopher Columbus got an eyeful of Jamaica's beginnings at the end of the 15th century, when he watched its indigenous...
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Secret Circle

Bad-ass ladies in killer jumpsuits are easy to come by. Toss some espionage into the mix, and the result is usually entertaining. Think ISIS assassin Lana Kane on Archer, Marvel’s Black Widow, and Pam Grier’s Foxy Brown. One, perhaps lesser known, addition to that list is Cleopatra Jones, the namesake...
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Five Sure Signs the Mustache Trend Needs to Die (Please)

Dear anyone (and everyone) who has ever considered cutting a mustache out of felt and putting it on, well, anything, It's time to let go. Not only is your fascination with this variety of facial hair a little disturbing, it's a little late. The mustache (as it's currently known in embroidered pillow,...
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Mexicans Pay in Blood for America’s War on Drugs

Editor's note: The American news media continues to report the body count in Mexico’s “War on Drugs” at more than 50,000 dead. But Molly Molloy, a researcher at New Mexico State University, tallies more than 100,000 Mexicans killed to wage a war financed and mandated by American authorities and led...
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Dengue Fever at Crescent Ballroom, 1/26/11

Dengue Fever Crescent Ballroom Thursday, January 26 The setting was the Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, but given the atmosphere and exotic sounds emanating from the stage, it may as well have been Cambodia circa mid-1970s. Eyes closed, it hardly mattered, Dengue Fever was in its element, and that element joined...
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Julia Chaplin Talks Gypset Style at Phoenix Art Museum

Despite Julia Chaplin's seemingly constant globe-trotting (she's recently spent time in Uruguay and Brazil, and travels to Mexico today), the writer insists she's an interloper -- a sort of Margaret Mead when it comes to understanding and documenting gypset culture.What's "gypset"? It's pretty simple actually. Combine the roaming lifestyle of...
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FoxVag III: Promoters Assures It Ain’t Another Breast-Fest

Although it's admittedly kinda fun putting Lilith Fair and FoxVag Fest in the same sentence, the two music expos couldn't be more dissimilar once you remove the female-heavy rosters.   Lilith Fair was started in 1997 by Canadian adult-alternative chanteuse Sarah McLachlan as a response to the commercial radio dial —...
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The Six Best Movie Make Outs

​One of the first commercially successful films, screened to audience wonder and critical disgust in 1896, is a little, one-take moving picture called The Kiss. Produced and distributed by Thomas Edison's film company, this 47-second film showed a close-up of two stage actors performing the kiss they share at the end...
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Egg Cream Challenge: Chompie’s vs. MacAlpine’s Soda Fountain

A drink called the New York style "egg cream" is thought to have been created sometime after the popularization of soda drinks and the birth of the soda fountain in the late 19th century, but fizzled sometime before the modern-day milkshake and 2-scoop waffle cones. What is an egg cream?...
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The Rock ‘N’ Roll Marathon: Where Everyone is a Runner

Not all Phoenix fun comes with dim lighting and fancy cocktails. Sometimes, there's nothing better than endorphins, sunshine, and sweat. Lover of all things outdoors, The Outsider explores the more natural side of Phoenix. The annual Rock 'N' Roll Marathon Series features a full marathon, a half marathon, and a two-person, half...
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See it on a Skateboard

One new idea for every day in 2011. We're talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here's today's -- what's yours? Brett Novak and Kilian Martin met during a freestyle skate competition and have jumped at the chance to be around each other ever since. The...
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Ando’s Totally Ethnic Ginger Chocolate Cookies

I've never been a fan of Christmas cookies. In my experience they tend to be bland sugar cookies pressed into vaguely holiday-ish shapes and buried beneath a mountain of colored sugars. My cooking companion is Hindu and freely admits that her Christmas repertoire is fairly limited as well. So we decided...
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Joe Arpaio Turns a Blind Eye to Jailhouse Justice

A  few months ago, Alan DeLong sat down to watch a new reality show on the Discovery Channel. First Week In goes inside jails around the nation and does mini-profiles of newly incarcerated inmates as they experience degradations at their hardcore digs. The episode was titled "Intimidation" (not to be...