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Perfect Circle

The five characters in Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation are anything but dramatic. The set-up of her 2009 play isn't very dramatic, either: a six-week acting class taught in the rec room of a community center in a small Vermont town. But the way Baker manages to mine gold from...
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Russell Pearce’s Lawyer Is Full of Bunk

I understand that lawyers need to make a buck, and usually I wouldn't worry about one latching onto Republican state Senate President and recall boy Russell Pearce like a lamprey sucking the blood out of an alligator, but even so, Phoenix attorney Lisa Hauser is a joke. And not a...
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Greg Stanton: Leading Arrogant Butcher’s Straw Poll In First Week

The Arrogant Butcher, downtown's newest dining spot, has been running a straw poll to gauge who might be Phoenix's next mayor.The results for Week One are in, and former Deputy Attorney General and Councilman Greg Stanton is leading the pack. Stanton: 168 Councilman Claude Mattox: 126 Councilwoman Peggy Neely: 78...
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Feedback from the Issue of Thursday, June 9, 2011

JOE SHOW It's all right there: Ray Stern's story on the many, many sins of Joe Arpaio and his minions would be unbelievable in any other jurisdiction in America ("Joe Knew," May 26). But in the joke that is Maricopa County, it's more than believable. The misappropriation of the nearly $100 million...
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Scan Your Favorite Movies

The images above aren't technically bar codes but the result of compressing every frame from a feature-length film into a single, horizontal image.The collection, including Bambi, The Big Lebowski, and The Social Network (pictured) are hosted on Movie Barcode, a Tumblr full of the compressed images with zero explanation or...
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The Serrano Mango Margarita at Canteen Tequila Bar

Since there's really no better accessory than a cocktail in your hand, each week brings you a tasty adult beverage from one of our favorite drinking establishments, complete with recipe.This week: The Serrano Mango Margarita at Canteen Tequila Bar Canteen Tequila Bar is a chill Happy Hour spot for grown...
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Brewed For Battle: American Brown Ale

​At what point does one elevate from merely drinking beer to being a full-on beer snob? Answer: when you feel compelled to tell other people what to drink. And the inevitable result of this peculiar ailment is the beer argument. In the spirit of all great beer-related discussions, we present...
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Speed Create

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? In 2010, London-based artist Dominic Wilcox completed a creative marathon. He was approached by the Anti Design Festival (created in response to the "pretty...
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A Shortage of Mexican Laborers Threatens Arizona Farming

Santiago Gonzalez walks through his watermelon fields on an overcast morning in May, surveying the crops. Some of the melons are bright green; others still have a yellowish tinge. The lifelong West Valley farmer reaches down for one, splits it open with a pocket knife, and cuts a chunk from...
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Now That’s How You Fry a Cadbury Creme Egg

A little over a week ago I committed an act of culinary terrorism in my own kitchen and put it on video. I learned (all right, I kind of guessed the outcome) that treating a Cadbury creme egg like an actual egg is a great way to fry up a...
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Taco Bell Beef Lawsuit (DONG! CRASH!) Dropped

DONG! It's over. According to the Associated Press, the class-action lawsuit brought against Taco Bell by an Alabama-based law firm claiming the fast food giant's products contain very little meat and requesting they quit referring to their questionable meat mixture as "beef" has been withdrawn. Whew! My Cheesy Double Decker...
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All That Glitters

By the time you read this, the wellspring of Charlie Sheen and Rebecca Black jokes will have just about dried up. Such is the nature of the American pop-cultural machine, where the exploits of human train wrecks generate an instantaneous maelstrom of material for talk show hosts and dozens of...
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Sarah Hurwitz’s “Meat Market” Wants You to Consider Eating Unicorns

Backyard chicken wrangling is suddenly very cool. Tattooed, cruiser-pedaling hipsters, NoPho lacrosse moms, and even teenagers (the sure sign that a trend's become legit) are doing it. Spotted recently in uptown Phoenix: a hand-painted sign reading, "Fresh eggs from my happy backyard chickens!" Could backyard pig ranching be the next...