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Firebird International Fined by EPA for Hazardous-Waste Violations; President of Raceway Thinks it’s a Blessing in Disguise

The Environmental Protection Agency fined Firebird International Raceway, and if you ask Firebird International President Charlie Allen, it's a blessing in disguise.The EPA claims that in 2005, Firebird failed to properly report and label hazardous waste like aerosol cans and used oil contaminated with racing fuels, brake and carburetor cleaners, and...
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Swell Band, Bad Relationship

Neil Sedaka was right: Breaking up is hard to do. Especially when you and your lover are a pair of working musicians with a productive and profitable creative partnership. Then it's real, real hard. The trick, if you can do it: Break up, but don't disband. Glen Hansard and Marketa...
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10 Things Under $10 This Weekend

HARL♥T at Mondrian Scottsdale (Friday) With all the action that happens on a typical weekend night in Old Town Scottsdale, the scene could easily be described as a circus. In the case of tonight's edition of HARL♥T, it's gonna be quite literal, as Jen Deveroux's sexed-up dance night will feature...
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Newborn Found Dead in Glendale Hospital Bathroom

Today is probably not the greatest day to be a public relations person for Banner Thunderbird Medical Center.This morning a complaint was filed about a nurse defecating in an operating room, and now there are reports that a newborn was found dead in one of the hospital's bathrooms...
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ASU Professor Elinor Ostrom Wins Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences

Forget President Obama -- one of Arizona's own won a 2009 Nobel Prize (and there's no doubt that she earned it). Elinor Ostrom, a faculty member at both Arizona State University and Indiana University, won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, which she shares jointly with Oliver E. Williams at the University...
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Best Salesman for a Good Cause

Nate AndersonNate Anderson radiates the kind of innate charm and cool confidence that only a natural-born salesman could posses. It’s to be expected, considering that the 27-year-old Ohio native grew up in a family filled with charismatic entrepreneurs. The lanky redhead is also a genuinely easygoing cat, whose social rapport and smooth-talking swagger probably proved invaluable […]
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Best Bite-Size Lecture Series

Ignite Phoenix at The Tempe Center for the Arts (usually)As the saying goes, less is more and Ignite Phoenix, the quarterly series of bite-size lectures, epitomizes the axiom. Modeled after the first Ignite event, held in Seattle in 2006, anyone can submit a presentation on anything — as long as it can be completed within five minutes. The hallmark of Ignite Phoenix is the […]
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Sun Angel

The word “hero” is too often bandied about, but when distinguished author Jon Krakauer (Into the Wild, Into Thin Air) writes a book about Pat Tillman and refers to him as a war hero, one takes notice. In Krakauer’s new book, Where Men Win Glory, the author draws on the...
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Best Place for Indoor Pickup Basketball

Lincoln Family Phoenix Downtown YMCAWhen the downtown Y remodeled its facility a few years ago, it upgraded the wooden upstairs b-ball court. The result is a full-on awesome gym minus the creaky floorboards and dead spots in the paint. Dont have an indoor-worthy basketball? No problem, because you can rent one free of charge at the front desk, whether […]
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Yo La Tengo at The Marquee

It's been a pretty solid year to be a Yo La Tengo fan.  The Hoboken-based indie-rock institution (25 years and running) didn't just release one new album this year, they released two. Their latest, Popular Songs finds the band exploring their entire stylistic breadth, indulging in the orchestrated pop, Motown...
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More Than 50 Cited at a Tempe Bar for Underage Drinking

So 52 underage people walk into a bar...and they all got arrested.The Tempe Police Department, in response to a complaint from the Department of Liquor Licensing and Control, made 52 arrests at a single bar Saturday night.That many minors in one place would even put Michael Jackson's Neverland to shame (too...
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Ignite Phoenix 5: Countdown to Ignition

Last night hundreds of people flooded the Tempe Center for the Arts for Ignite Phoenix 5, a presentation series that gives 18 people five minutes and twenty slides to talk about their passions. I would have happily joined them, but I was too busy pacing back and forth back stage,...
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King’s World of Marble Loses Fight With Phoenix City Hall

The pair of business owners, who locked themselves in their Phoenix marble store rather than relocate as they were ordered to do by the city, lost their fight with city hall last week. Seamus King and Alexandra Seals, owners of King's World of Marble, were ordered to give up their property,  near...
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Ingrid Michaelson

There's no denying that Ingrid Michaelson is an indie-rock success story. The singer has sold many, many copies of her 2007 album Girls and Boys. Michaelson's "The Way I Am" was featured heavily in an Old Navy ad campaign and her track "Keep Breathing" received some buzz after being played...
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Best Way to Get a Quick-and-Easy Demo

Ray ReevesWe know. Your band rules, but: a) you can’t afford studio time; and b) no way can a clinical recording environment capture the energy and general awesomeness of your live performances. Well, guess what? There’s a local drummer and professional audio engineer by the name of Ray Reeves who goes around to local music venues […]