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Dodgers Give One Away to Diamondbacks on Reynolds Walk-Off Walk

By playing a solid nine innings of baseball Wednesday night, the Arizona Diamondbacks helped keep the race to win the National League West an interesting one. In their 4-3 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Chase Field, Dan Haren was excellent, the defense was airtight, and strikeout king Mark...
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Thin Line Between Love and Heat

An endless summer might be perfect for sun-bleached surfers dreaming of the perfect wave, but by now, you've watched your electric bill skyrocket and have cooked your hand repeatedly on your steering wheel. You are so ready for this season to move on. The Trunk Space is, too, so on...
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Guinness World Record Set For Skinny Dipping

He assures us that his skin cancer is a result of youthful recklessness, not his current lifestyle. Now he's an old man who spends weekends hanging out by the pool and playing water volley ball. He's also stark naked, but that's cool because so is everyone else. This guy, who...
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Beatles for Sale (Again)

It's an event that happens once a generation. If you'd had a child in 1987, the last time the Beatles catalog was re-mastered for release (on CD, for the first time), the kid wouldn't be a kid anymore. Voting rights? Check. Able to purchase alcohol without a fake ID? Check...
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Horse Tripping to be Outlawed by Governor Brewer

Its practice is even dumber than its name. "Horse tripping," a "sport" where "cowboys" track and literally trip a running horse, is expected to be outlawed by Governor Jan Brewer today. "Few horses survive, and it usually results in broken legs, internal damage, and death," Phoenix Councilwoman Thelda Williams tells the Arizona...
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Bashas’ Closing 10 Grocery Stores

It's tough times for home-grown supermarket chain Bashas', which is closing 10 of its 156 Arizona Bashas' and Food City stores (seven located in the Valley) on July 21. The Chandler-based company filed for bankruptcy protection yesterday, reports the Republic. Up to 1,000 employees may be laid off as a result of...
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Hot Links: Solar Cameras, 306 DUI Arrests, and Bones on Base

Scottsdale-based company Redflex Traffic Solutions Inc. is developing a solar-powered photo enforcement camera. The company has an agreement with Tempe-based Arizona Solar Concepts to design the cameras, but both companies refuse to elaborate until the project is further along. A Redflex spokesperson says the cameras are "not roadworthy" yet...A Mesa...
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Back to the Sonic Future

If you think of The Gin Blossoms as the primary legacy of Valley music, you're invited to hop into the Delorean that is "The Grid: Music Edition" exhibition. The Trunk Space, hosts of this sweet show, posed this simple question to The Shizz online local music community: "What's the oldest...
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Roosevelt School District Shows Big Improvement in Test Scores

  South Phoenix's Roosevelt School District, historically one of the Valley's worst-performing districts, made an impressive gain in test scores in 2009. The district announced today that students performed 9 percent better in math and 10 percent better in reading on the AIMS test. That puts the district in better...
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The Informant! Gets Cute With Massive Corporate Scandal and Blows the Story

As evidenced by The Informant!, it's a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels Midland biochemist-exec-turned-crooked-federal-snitch Mark Whitacre is a tragicomedy. Journalist Kurt Eichenwald spent five years trailing the bipolar fuck-up, and his 2000 book, The Informant, is so densely, richly...