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Best New Mexico Cuisine

Richardson'sEven though we’re right next door, it’s hard to know the true scope of “New Mexico cuisine.” (For what it’s worth, experts say it’s a combination of cooking styles and ingredients from Mexico, Spain and various Indigenous groups.) But what if you thought less about the particulars and more about the delectable end results? Case […]
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Best Pop-Up Art Show

'All In'Hundreds of people showed up at Tempe’s Danelle Plaza on a Thursday night in April, not for a punk concert at Yucca Tap Room, but an art show. “All In,” organized by local artist and art teacher Matt Dickson, was intended to be a one-night-only show featuring the works of 50 local creatives. Dickson wanted […]
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Best Show Trial

Austin DavisAs homelessness hits all-time highs in the Valley, the city of Tempe dogged poet, organizer, activist and giver of food Austin Davis for actually trying to help unhoused people instead of letting them die on the streets in a nightmare. The city brought Davis into court for not getting its approval to organize feedings, resulting […]
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Best Activists

ASU Gaza EncampmentA tiny group of people seemed to be the only ones this year with enough guts to make noise about uncomfortable truths, protesting the civilian atrocities of Israel’s brutal assault on the people of Palestine to a largely apathetic, detached and complicit Arizona public. Of the 250 or so protesters who formed an encampment on […]
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Pretty Penny

Downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row is replete with places to eat and drink. Pretty Penny adds a dose of luxury, serving seafood towers, well-crafted pastas and steaks from a sleek, warm space. The restaurant recently moved across the street into the former home of bar and restaurant Disco Dragon. Pretty Penny is the result of a […]