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Tom Metzger’s Buds Dennis and Daniel Mahon Collared for Scottsdale Bombing, Arizona ADL Helped Bring Them Down

Friday morning, I dropped by the offices of U.S. Attorney Diane Humetewa to attend a news conference announcing the indictment of identical twin white supremacists Dennis and Daniel Mahon for their alleged role in a 2004 mail bombing that injured three Scottsdale city workers, including Donald Logan, the city's Director of Diversity and Dialogue...
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Gross Out: Towel Trouble at Tomaso’s

Of the last five restaurant inspections completed at Tomaso's Italian restaurant on East Camelback Road in Phoenix, five resulted in a failing grade. At the most recent inspection, in early March, the inspector noted dried food debris on the interior of the microwave and surfaces of the slicer. The meat...
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The Bromoil Standard

The photography of Joy Goldkind deserves its own soundtrack -- one that you would hear in a silent moviehouse or on a scratchy 78-rpm record. You see, her waggish interpretations of nudes and human forms, exposed using the bromoil process (a Pictorialists-era alternative photographic method) remind us of a theatrical,...
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Psychostick and Jill Sobule Have Fan-Funded Albums in Common

You might not think that Tempe "humorcore" band Psychostick and Jill Sobule (a.k.a. that chick who sings the other "I Kissed a Girl" song) have much in common, but it turns out they both have some seriously loyal fans. Last year, with the country mired in a recession, Psychostick and...
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I-Video Killed the TV Stars

Web videos such as "David After the Dentist," "Kittens Inspired by Kittens", and "Take On Me (Literally)" are like manna, resulting in mad laughter and everlasting in-jokes. So how does one move beyond the realm of easily forgotten clips and actually forge a career, like the comedians of Human Giant...
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Isis at Clubhouse Music Venue

They stood speechless and unmoving, breaking their silence only in those brief moments when the performers had finished one song and moved on to another. There were few claps. There were few shouts. There were a few hundred people enthralled by the melodic incantations of L.A. art metal band Isis.Plenty...
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Star Swim Returns This Saturday: Win Tickets!

Last summer, one of the coolest (and indeed, hottest) places to be seen was at the Hotel San Carlos for the weekly Star Swim pool party. An absolute throng of hundreds of hepcats and kittens crowded the tiny swimming area at the vintage auberge in downtown Phoenix for several weekends...
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Josh Hamilton

Following the Cactus League game between the Texas Rangers and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, the Rangers outfielder and 1999 first overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft will speak up about his struggle with alcohol/crack addiction (which resulted in his temporary ouster from the game) and speak out...
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Cooking School Secrets: Ready or Not – Here We Come

Well, our classroom hours are over. It's on to the restaurant, which is as close to a rite of passage as you get in culinary school. Our group was scheduled to spend the first few weeks in the kitchen. I felt ready to face the challenge. After all, I learned...
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First Taste: Brio Tuscan Grille

We tried to be good. We really did. Go take a quick step outside. Did you feel it? That's right. It's pool weather and if there's one reason we've been slogging it out at the gym day in and day out it's to enjoy this weather with preferably only two...
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“Retarded” German Killer Rudi Apelt Sentenced (Again)

Rudi Apelt, a German national whose brutal murder of a local woman led to a death sentence in 1989, got a reprieve from death row in May after his lawyers convinced a judge that he is mentally retarded.But Apelt won't be getting out of prison anytime soon. Yesterday, Maricopa County...
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Covance: Beagle March Organizer is Known Liar

Camilla Strongin, spokeswoman for Covance, took issue with our Tuesday post about a planned march of beagles this Sunday in protest of the medical testing company in Chandler: Maybe you should do a little research on Jan McClellan before providing her cause such ligitamcy. I have included a story that...
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Cooking School Secrets: A Few More Changes

Life's full of changes. I get that, but this class seems to be morphing at warp speed. And I'm talking major life changes. One of my classmates took a several month leave of absence to have back surgery. We lost one to excessive absence. Another asked me to recommend a...
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Hamas-Tied Charity Group Helper Pleads Guilty to Lying to FBI

A Mesa father and engineer has pleaded guilty to charges of lying to the FBI about his involvement in a charity organization tied to Hamas. Between 1994 and 1997, Akram Musa Abdallah, 54, raised funds for the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development, which the federal government accuses of...