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Arizona’s Medical-Marijuana Pioneers Don’t Know the Final Rules of the Game Yet — But They Are Certain of the Prize

At least one major dispute already has erupted among Arizona's fledgling marijuana businesses. Al Sobol, one of the industry marketers featured in our earlier cover story about Proposition 203 ("Chronic Future," November 25) filed a complaint in January with the U.S. Justice Department, alleging collusion between some would-be dispensary owners...
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NeedToBreathe @ Marquee Theatre

Usually, band's origin stories are pretty similar to one another. You know the drill: The members, outcasts at school, rebelled against their parents and wound up in a forceful, angst-y band. That's not really how things worked for the members of NeedToBreathe. The stripped down Southern-sounding quintet hailing from Seneca,...
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Scrapple: The Pennsylvanian Treat from Schreiner’s

Despite what the supermarket aisle may lead you to believe, there's more to an animal than neatly wrapped styrofoam trays of meat. From tongue to tail, offal (pronounced awful) encompasses all those taboo edibles that don't make the cut at your local grocer. Just Offal is here to explore these...
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Joe Arpaio Slapdown: Judge Rejects Request To Seal Depositions in Melendres

Judge G. Murray Snow, the federal judge in the three-year-long racial profiling lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office, has rejected a motion by Sheriff Joe Arpaio's lawyers to seal videotaped depositions of Arpaio, former Chief Deputy David Hendershott and other MCSO staff. (Read the Judge's ruling, here.) The motion...
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NeedToBreathe

Normally the backstories about how rock bands got their start are pretty similar to one another. You know the drill: The members were outcasts in school, rebelled against their parents in some way, and wound up in a forceful, angsty band. That's not really how things worked for the members...
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The Future of First Friday Street Closures (To Be Continued)

Note: This article's been updated to reflect accurate gallery openings.More than 70 members from the downtown community and representatives of the Phoenix Police department met Wednesday night at MonOrchid to discuss the future of street closures during First Friday.The short story: Fur flew and the closures are still canceled. The...
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Arizona Medical Marijuana Bill Still Too Close to Call

As we reported, more than 70 percent of precincts have delivered voting results -- and Proposition 203, Arizona's Medical Marijuana Initiative, is losing by a narrow margin. As this is being written, Prop 203's down by less than a percentage point.   In other words, Prop 203 looks like it's...
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Phoenix Police: There Is No Criminal Investigation of PD Over Kidnapping Stats, Feds Conducting Standard Audit

Kidnapping statistics tallied by the Phoenix Police Department are getting called into question --again. Two Valley news stations have reported that the Phoenix Police Department, including Public Safety Manager (read: Police Chief) Jack Harris and Mayor Phil Gordon, are under investigation by the feds over allegations that kidnapping figures were inflated to...
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Night’s Still Young, but Proposition 203’s Trailing in Early Votes; Potential Landslides Could be Ahead for Republicans Jan Brewer, David Schweikert, and Ben Quayle. John McCain Landslide All but Certain

  Proposition 203 is failing to live up to expectations of a landslide victory as very early ballots come in, with the medical-marijuana measure trailing 52 percent to 48 percent. These are the results of about 430,000 early ballots in Maricopa County. The early votes show Democratic Congressman Harry Mitchell trailing Republican David Schweikert by a hefty 10...
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Brewed for Battle: Russian Imperial Stout

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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The Virgin Gets Creamed by Cornbread

A few years ago, I bought my husband a cute little antique cornbread pan on a whim. It was after he mentioned his granny used a cast iron pan like the one we spotted at the Scottsdale Antiques Market to cook something he called "corn pone." Apparently that's Southspeak for eggless...