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Chaos and Of The Earth Galleries to Join Efforts

Money ain't growing on trees these days in downtown Phoenix. As a result, two independently run art spaces are teaming up. In the near future, ©haos, 801 North 6th Street, plans to move its operations to Of The Earth, the Sean and Maryana Riley-run gallery located one building south of...
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Cold Comfort: Meet This Summer’s Frozen Four

Summertime temps are lingering, and let's face it: Around here, there's no end in sight. The fast-food world feels our desire to chill, and has offered up some new and limited-time frozen fare to cash in on our need to beat-the-heat eatings. Are these new cold concoctions worth getting fired...
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Sufjan Stevens Forsakes His Christian Fans to Create Art

Here's a summary of nearly all the too-long-didn't-read reviews you'll see of Sufjan Stevens' electro-beat-y new album, The Age of Adz: "He's not doing the state thing anymore. Something about the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. This album is weird. Where's the banjo?" Sure, most critics will throw around big words and dance...
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Joe Arpaio Allows Shaun Attwood’s Hard Time Into Jail Library

Here's a little news for those Sand Land haters out there who've dissed Shaun Attwood, author of Hard Time: A Brit in America's Toughest Jail, the subject of my most recent Bird column. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the guy Attwood takes to task for the squalid, dangerous conditions in his vast incarceration complex, is...
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Soul Stealer

Commercial photographer Tyson Crosbie says he "steals souls for a living." If that’s true, his latest gallery exhibition, “The Phoenix Series,” is his surreptitious attempt to seize the soulful essence of our fair city. With a camera lens closely aimed at decaying strips of vivid paint swashes as well as...
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Morning Poll: Should Arpaio “Campaign” Ads be Pulled?

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has been asked to intervene in a spat between Sheriff Joe Arpaio and two candidates running for political office this yearYou see, Arpaio's started running TV ads he claims are in support of his re-election campaign -- a lofty claim for a guy who...
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Ten Songs I’m Not Afraid To Admit That I Love

We all have guilty pleasures.When we like something that falls outside the realm of our normally stringent tastes, it can be exhausting to constantly keep up appearances around our peers.Maybe you've had that experience when Britney Spears' "Toxic" comes on the radio and you try not to visibly enjoy it...
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44: Mozzarella Carozza at Aiello’s Fine Italian Dining

Hungry yet? We're working up our appetites for our huge Best of Phoenix issue, out September 30, with daily servings of Chow Bella's 100 Favorite Dishes from across the Valley -- in no particular order Leave your suggestions for upcoming favorites in the comments section. Visit our sister blog, Jackalope...
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Natalie Merchant

Being that we're neck-deep in the era of indie-rock reunions, I'm shocked that singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant hasn't yet gotten back together with 10,000 Maniacs. The New York band with whom she rose to fame nearly 30 years ago before exiting in 1993 to launch a solo career has continued in...
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Trojan Survey Shows More Heat Means More Sex

Higher Phoenix temperatures = more hot sex? According to a recent survey by Trojan Brand Condoms, that's exactly right. Trojan's "Degrees of Pleasure" survey links weather with sexual satisfaction; the results for Phoenix show, among other things, 70 percent of the people polled in Phoenix are "always up for sex,"...
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Morning Poll: Which Primary Race Was the Ugliest?

Primary day is finally upon us, folks, and we're a little bummed out. The daily bickering between candidates and the cruel-but-entertaining political attacks will be coming to an end.We've been blessed with some fairly ugly campaigns this primary season, which have only been made better by the fact that those...
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Morning Poll: Is Term “National Poster Boy” Racist?

Congressional candidate Vernon Parker decided to pull out the race card last week, asserting that a phrase used by one of his primary opponents is racist.The phrase in question: "national poster boy."The term was used by Ben Quayle in statement his campaign released in response to a different far-reaching attack...