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Kanye West and the Art of Award Show Interruptions

In a move that shocked no one, Kanye West once again bum-rushed the stage to interrupt an acceptance speech. At last night's MTV Music Video Awards, the Late Graduator himself took to the stage to butt in on Taylor Swift's acceptance speech for winning the Best Female Video award. Upon...
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Blue October

A few years back, Blue October frontman Justin Furstenfeld went to great lengths to make it clear that music was a business to him, first and foremost. So maybe it shouldn't be such a surprise that his music is devoid of sincerity. He complained about having to be away from...
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Hope Kee Saves You from Shopping on an Empty Stomach

Grocery shopping on an empty stomach has its pitfalls, especially when you make it to the register and find out how much you've spent on random, hunger-induced impulse buys. The experience can be even more intense at ethnic markets, where the shelves are stocked with unusual ingredients to inspire creative...
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“Secret Squirrel Operation” by ICE Nets Border Patrol Agent, Says Lawsuit; Agent Claims He was Traumatized by Arrest

A Border Patrol agent is suing the U.S. Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, claiming he was traumatized after being stopped by ICE agents on a dark, rural road in southern Arizona and held at gunpoint. Jess Cabe, who works out of the Border Patrol's Nogales Station, filed the lawsuit on September 4 in the U.S. District...
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Bob Dylan Cancels Phoenix Concert Due To “Excessive Heat”

: Phoenix, Arizona gets rather warm during the summer months.Is this a good reason to avoid scheduling an outdoor concert at a minor league ballpark in suburban Glendale for mid-August? Probably. But, if such a concert a concert is scheduled -- as Bob Dylan did, by planning to play the Camelback...
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Want to Do Drugs? Go to Mexico: Now Small Amounts are Legal!

Parents will be delighted to learn that their college students now have a legal place to experiment with hard drugs. And it's just across the border. No joke. Yesterday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon signed a controversial bill into law that will decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs, including...
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Taser International Unveils Video Recorder to Accompany Gun; Expects to Cut Company Legal Fees in Half

Youtube videos of people screaming "don't Tase me bro" while getting zapped by police officers could become as common as reports of police who use their Tasers more liberally than civil rights leaders condone. Scottsdale-based Taser International announced recently that it's creating a head-mounted video-recording system for police officers that they expect will cut the companies legal fees in...
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Giffords Statements on Healthcare Reform Show the “Devil is in the Detail”

Reading the full transcript of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords' August 10 interview with the Arizona Daily Star, it's easy to see why people are so frustrated with plans to launch government-run healthcare insurance. The costs, the potential savings, the type of coverage, the potential taxes to cover the plan --...
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Against Me! Proves They’re Punk’s Best Band at Phoenix Show

​There are probably some people who'd question the credibility of any punk band playing a show staged by a carmaker, especially if that carmaker didn't just stake out prime product placement, but actually paid for the whole shebang so it could give tickets only to people who test-drove a new...
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Dungen Kick Out The Jams In Phoenix

By Becky Bartkowski The most obvious realization when seeing Dungen at The Rhythm Room: These Swedes can kick out serious jams live. Sitting somewhere between pure-Kinks classic rock riffs, the gentle, beaming soundscapes of Sigur Rós and the most American of jazz quartets, this quartet marries some seemingly disparate ideas...
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Please Don’t Call Chickenfoot a “Supergroup”

In the annals of rock history, there's been only one "supergroup" that did anything truly super, and that was the very first supergroup of all, the band that introduced the term into the rock lexicon, the Eric Clapton/Jack Bruce/Ginger Baker '60s power trio Cream. In 1966, Bruce and Baker were...
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Local Heroes

If comic-book movies have taught us anything, it’s that fights between superheroes and their respective nemeses tend to result in rampant destruction. Just look at X-Men: The Last Stand, in which the donnybrook between Magneto’s Brotherhood of Mutants and that hairy little freak Wolverine devastated the city of San Francisco...